| MANUKA | New Zealand tree, the source of nectar for bees producing a prized type of honey |
| HYSSOP | Shrub in the mint family; a favoured source of nectar for honeybees (6) |
| IVY | Providing nectar for bees and butterflies and a bounty of winter berries for blackbirds, thrushes, redwings and wood pigeons, the evergreen vine Hedera helix (3) |
| TAYBERRIES | Rarity! Bees producing hybrid fruits (10) |
| ALKANET | Common name for the blue flowering Anchusa officinalis - a key provider of nectar for wildlife (7) |
| CACAO | Tropical tree, the source of chocolate (5) |
| PALM | Tropical tree, the source of coconuts and dates (4) |
| LENEYS | Prized type of carp (*NY eels!) (6) |
| WAGGLE | Dance that a collector bee makes to tell the other bees in the hive that it has found a ood source of nectar and pollen |
| PEAR | Fruit that's a source of nectar |
| RUNNY | Dash to New York for a type of honey (5) |
| KARAKA | New Zealand tree with edible orange fruit, the seeds of which are poisonous until treated (6) |
| RUTA | Which red-flowering New Zealand tree has a northern and a southern species? (4) |
| MAHOE | Small, bushy New Zealand tree of the violet family (5) |
| REWAREWA | Tall New Zealand tree yielding a valuable reddish timber used in furniture-making; Knightia excelsa (8) |
| THISTLE | Prickly plant whose flowers, immortalised on coats of arms, coins, Scottish emblems and shortbread rounds, provide downy parachute-like seeds for goldfinches and nectar for bumblebees and painted ladi |
| ELIMINATES | Gets rid of biblical priest with friends consuming inebriating nectar for starters (10) |
| HEATHER | Warm up the girl with type of honey (7) |
| TORU | New Zealand tree (anagram of ROUT) |
| MAMAKU | The New Zealand tree-fern, Cyathea medullaris (6) |
