| CYME | In botany, inflorescence where the first flower is the terminal bud of a main stem, and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems (4) |
| CYMES | In botany, inflorescences in which the first flower is the terminal bud of the main stem and subsequent flowers develop as terminal buds of lateral stems, eg. African violet (saintpaulia) (5) |
| EPICOTYL | Part of the stem of an embryo plant or seedling above the embryonic leaves (cotyledons) and below the terminal bud (8) |
| CLOVE | Segment of a bulb of garlic; or, the unopened flower bud of a plant in the myrtle family used as an aromatic spice to flavour ginger cake or pumpkin pie (5) |
| ZINNIAS | Related to the daisies and with cultivars including Peppermint Stick, Purple Prince, Queeny Lime Red, Sunbow and Swizzle, the first flowers grown in space (7) |
| OFFSHOOT | Word for a side branch of a tree or other plant, thus for anything that develops from a main stem (8) |
| ARCHITECTURAL | Bow struck the City with the first flower of building design (13) |
| ROSECUT | Description of an antique diamond shaped with three to 24 facets to resemble the bud of a flower (4-3) |
| PRIMROSE | Name, from Old French and Latin for "first flower", in allusion to its appearance in early spring, for a meadow or woodland bloom related to cowslip, cyclamen and pimpernel; or, its pale-yellow hue (8 |
| PHENOLOGY | Study of seasonal changes and timings throughout nature's calendar such as the first cuckoo call in spring, first flowers/fruits and leaf fall (9) |
| BRANCHES | Divisions of a main stem (8) |
| BRANCH | Fork of a main stem (6) |
| TASTER | One who eats first with the first flower |
| ARTICHOKES | Globe -; buds of a plant in the thistle family with edible hearts often preserved in oil (10) |
| SEPAL | Segment of calyx protecting the bud of a flowering plant (5) |
| CAPER | Pickled flower-bud of a bramble-like bush of Sicily (5) |
| USA | One of the countries whose national flower is the rose (3) |
| FLEURDELIS | What flower is the badge of the Boy Scouts? (5-2-3) |
| CLEMATIS | Popular flowering vine, of those found on Mallorca the vitalba variety with white flowers is the rarest (8) |
| EYE | The bud of a potato etc. |
