| STELIS | Large genus in the orchid family whose name derives from the Greek word for mistletoe (6) |
| VANILLA | The only fruit-bearing plant in the orchid family, from which the world's second-most expensive spice after saffron derives (7) |
| DISCHARROW | Tiller used in the Orchid wars (4,6) |
| CAMELLIA | A genus of shrubs or trees of the tea family whose name derives from a Jesuit missionary (8) |
| HID | Secretly stashed the presents in the orchids (3) |
| BARIUM | Soft, silvery metal that rapidly tarnishes in air, whose name derives from the Greek for 'heavy' (6) |
| IRISES | Flowering plants whose name derives from the Greek word for a rainbow (6) |
| OSMIUM | A shiny, silver metal discovered in 1803 whose name derives from the Greek for 'smell' (6) |
| MANTIS | An insect whose name derives from the Greek for "prophet", in allusion to its praying posture (6) |
| IODINE | A black, shiny crystalline solid whose name derives from the Greek for 'violet' (6) |
| AZALEA | Flowering shrub in the rhododendron family, whose name, from "dry", refers to its preferred arid, sandy or nutrient-poor soil (6) |
| EUNICE | Girl's name that derives from the Greek for 'good victory' (6) |
| PLANET | Type of celestial body whose name ultimately derives from the Greek for "wanderer" |
| KALMIA | Any of several evergreen shrubs, including the mountain laurel, constituting a genus in the heath family (Ericaceae) (6) |
| OXALIS | Large genus of flowering plants in the wood-sorrel family (6) |
| ACACIA | Large genus of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae, also known as wattle (6) |
| SILENE | Campion is one name for this large genus of bloomers (6) |
| DAPHNE | Genus in the family thymelaeaceae, or a mythical nymph (6) |
| ALICIA | Genus in the family malpighiaceae (6) |
| GALEGA | Goat's rue genus in the Legume family fabaceae (6) |
