| SALTPAN | A PLANT'S |
| 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 |
| TENDRIL | A plant's slender threadlike shoot, often growing in a spiral form (7) |
| MUTATION | A plant's genetic 'sport' - turning a mint out (8) |
| FOLIATION | A plant's production of greenery; the numbering of leaves in a book; or, architectural ornamentation of cusps, foils and other leaf-like motifs (9) |
| POSTNASAL | So a plant's unexpectedly situated behind a hooter |
| UPROOT | Word for pull, as in a plant's radical or a person's figurative radix (6) |
| CALYX | A plant's natural cover (5) |
| BULB | A plant's storage organ (4) |
| SEED | Inception of a plant's life |
| SOIL | Stuff in a plant's pot |
| SAP | A plant's lifeblood (3) |
| SEPAL | Part of a plant's calyx |
| LEAFAGE | A plant's collective foliage (7) |
| STEMROT | Decay of a plant's stalk |
| DIRT | Where a plant's roots grow |
