| DISBUD | Remove a plant's rudimentary shoots (6) |
| BUDS | Rudimentary shoots |
| SPROUT | Remove a plant completely |
| UPROOT | Remove a plant completely |
| POISONIVY | Apply toxin to ivory or remove a plant that makes you itch (6,3) |
| POLLEN | Substance produced by a plant's stamen (6) |
| WHORLS | 360degrees turns in spiral seashells; fingerprint patterns; or radial arrangements of petals or leaves around a plant's stem (6) |
| PHLOEM | From "bark" and key to supersize pumpkins, tissue/bast that conducts photosynthesised sugars and other metabolites downwards from a plant's leaves to its fruits, roots or tubers (6) |
| RATOON | Shoot sprouting from a plant's base |
| ANTHER | Part of a plant's stamen |
| BUD | A rudimentary shoot is indubitably held up (3) |
| WHORL | Complete circle in a fingerprint; a single 360degrees tum in a spiral seashell; or, a verticil of leaves or petals radiating from a single point of a plant's stem (5) |
| NODE | A vertex in a graph or a tree diagram; or, a point on a plant's stem from which a leaf emerges (4) |
| LEAF | With no certain cognate, one of a plant's photosynthetic folia to whose flatness or laminarity a flap of a table, page/folio, piece of gold foil or a sheet of filo are likened; or, foliage, loose tea |
| ROOT | A plant's "anchor" known in its edible form as a carrot, parsnip, radish, swede or turnip, among other things; or, a word's etymon (4) |
| BALL | A spherical mass of crystal, leather, minced beef, snow, wool, yarn etc; the delivery of the "cherry" in cricket; a plant's compact mass of roots with its surrounding soil; or, a formal assembly for d |
| LATERAL | Like growth of a plant's side shoots (7) |
| MUTATION | A plant's genetic 'sport' - turning a mint out (8) |
| POSTNASAL | So a plant's unexpectedly situated behind a hooter |
| TENDRIL | A plant's slender threadlike shoot, often growing in a spiral form (7) |
