| BERBERIS | Genus of shrubs that includes European Barberry and the Japanese barberry (8) |
| ERICA | Genus of shrubs that includes the heaths and some heathers (5) |
| CORONILLA | Genus of shrubs that includes scorpion senna and Mediterranean crown vetch (9) |
| RIBES | Genus of shrub that includes the blackcurrant and gooseberry (5) |
| SOURNESS | One of the five basic qualities of taste, together with sweetness, bitterness, saltiness and the Japanese-named 'unami' |
| MAYAPPLE | American spring-flowering plant of the barberry family yielding a yellowish, eggshaped fruit; Podophyllum peltatum (8) |
| PEPTALKS | Afterthought includes European Parliament gossip for inspirational speeches (3,5) |
| RECREATE | Sports ground charge to include European copy (8) |
| ROSEMARY | Fragrant shrub that is the flower of remembrance (8) |
| CATCLAWS | Shrubs that can scratch you |
| SMILAX | Genus of climbing shrubs that includes the sarsaparilla and false chinaroot (6) |
| PRUNUS | Genus of trees and shrubs that includes plums, cherries, peaches, apricots and almonds |
| INGENUES | Popular group to include European starlets |
| MANGROVE | A tree or shrub that grows in mainly tropical coastal swamps and has roots above ground (8) |
| BESMIRCH | Tree or shrub that English NCO's planted in soil (8) |
| OLEANDER | Flowering shrub that meant nothing to a legendary swimmer (8) |
| ROSEBUSH | Plant, perhaps, shrub that spreads across large crate at last (8) |
| BALI | Invaded by the Dutch in 1908 and the Japanese in WWII this Sunda island was absorbed into the new nation of Indonesia |
| NISEI | Eyes are on the sen and the Japanese-American (5) |
| DECIDUOUS | Trees and shrubs that shed all their leaves at the end of each growing season and then have a dormant period (9) |
