| NYSSA | The tupelo genus of deciduous trees that moistly grow in moist habitats, especially swamps and beside ponds (5) |
| ELMS | English -; depicted in some of the paintings and drawings by John Constable, deciduous trees that once dominated Britain's rural landscape (4) |
| MOSSES | Small, mat-forming flowerless green plants that love moist habitats (6) |
| ALBIZIA | Genus of deciduous trees, shrubs or climbers, which includes the pink silk tree (___ julibrissin) (7) |
| TILIA | Genus of deciduous trees often with colourful winter twigs (5) |
| LEAF | Admired in the pastime of "peeping", any one of the organs of photosynthesis of deciduous trees and other plants, turning from green to yellow and red in the autumn (4) |
| OXLEY | Which surveyor and explorer created the myth of the inland sea by reporting that the Macquarie and the Lachlan Rivers both ended in swamps and that this might mark the beginning of a sea? (5) |
| CYCLAMEN | Thriving in the shade of deciduous trees with ferns, a pink or white flower in the primrose family, said to have been a favourite of Leonardo da Vinci (8) |
| FOTHERGILLA | Small genus of deciduous shrubs of the south eastern United States, with fiery red and orange leaves in autumn (11) |
| CHACO | The Gran --- is a plain of swamps and forest between the Andes and the Paraguay River (5) |
| ALDER | A tree of the birch family with toothed leaves that grows in moist places (5) |
| SHIITAKE | An edible mushroom native to East Asia that grows on the decaying wood of deciduous trees (8) |
| TAMARIX | Genus of deciduous shrubs and small trees, with tiny, scale-like leaves - notably good for coastal gardens (7) |
| EDGEWORTHIA | Genus of deciduous shrubs, related to thyme, grown for their flowers in late winter and early spring (11) |
| WATERTUPELO | Common name for Nyssa aquatica, a large, long-lived tree that grows in the swamps and floodplains of the south-eastern US (5,6) |
| LARCH | Genus of deciduous conifers in the family Pinaceae (5) |
| SHOETREE | She holds the last of the tupelo gum perhaps to protect the pump (8) |
| BETULA | Genus of deciduous hardwood birch trees (6) |
| SWEET | - chestnut; species of deciduous tree with nut-like fruits wrapped in prickly cases (5) |
| MANGROVE | A tree or shrub that grows in mainly tropical coastal swamps and has roots above ground (8) |
