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SPATHEIn botany, a sheathing bract enclosing the flower or spadix of plants including the arum, day flower, palm, peace lily and crocus (6)
PEAA family of plants including the garden Pisum sativum; a seed of the latter, eaten as a vegetable or blown through a shooter; or, a tiny cob of coal, coffee berry, roe of salmon or stone, when akin to
BRACTIn botany, a modified leaf, typically small, bearing a flower or flower cluster in its axil (5)
CUCKOOPINTWith a spadix and a spathe, a wild arum of woodland and hedgerows, also known as Jack-in-the-pulpit or lords and ladies (6,4)
ARUMGenus of plants in which the flowers are produced in a spadix surrounded by a spathe
STYLEIn botany, a long, slender stalk found within the flower, that connects the stigma and the ovary (5)
UVAIn botany, a small pulpy or juicy fruit containing several seeds and having a thin skin, such as a grape (3)
AWNIn botany, a hair-like appendage on a larger structure - and three-quarters of a lawn! (3)
STROMAIn botany, a dense mass of hyphae in which a fungus fructification may develop
PEDICELIn botany, a small stalk bearing a single flower in an inflorescence (7)
UNGUISZoological Latin for a claw/nail, thus, in botany, a talon-like base of a petal (6)
AROIDCommon name for a flowering plant in the arum family (with flowers borne on a spadix) (5)
SYNCARPIn botany, a fleshy multiple fruit formed from the aggregated fruits of several flowers (7)
EUPHORBIAThe spurge genus of plants, including the pulcherrima (poinsettia) variety (9)
RHODOCHITONGenus of flowering plants, including the purple bell vine, in the diascia and nemesia family (11)
GREENDRAGONNorth American perennial plant of the arum family with a very long white spadix (5,6)
STOLONIn botany, a creeping horizontal plant stem or runner, that takes root at points along its length to form new plants (6)
OCREASheathing part of a plant at the node of the stem (5)
VELAMANIn botany, a multi-layered sheath of dead cells on some aerial roots (7)
TRADESCANTIAGenus of plants including the Virginia spiderwort and Ohio spiderwort (12)