Christian Aid Cryptic Plants Quiz

Have a little fun as you help someone else, and you could win a bottle of Fairtrade wine. Here are clues to assorted plant names. The clues are mostly cryptic or just bad puns (occasionally a mix). Punctuation marks are ignored: "I'm livin'" is clued as (2,5);
Solve as many as you can (you don't have to complete it; some years no-one finishes) and send the answers to Mrs Walker, 12 West Way, Slinfold, RH13 0SB, together with a donation of at least £3 for Christian Aid (If you can fill in the Gift Aid declaration at the end, your gift is worth even more). Closing date is June 4th 2024
The winner, whoever correctly solves the most clues, will be announced on St. Peter's, Slinfold website, shortly after and the prize delivered within the next few days
In the event of a tie, the winner will be the person who, in the opinion of the committee, best completes this sentence, using ten or fewer words:-
'I support Christian Aid because

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The Quiz

TREE FRUITS (OR FRUIT TREES)

A tropic catastrophe, or Mrs. Norris's Moorpark (7)
Definitely not a lady to arrive (5)
High score in darts and whist (7)
Invert your graphics interchange file (3)
Miner's daughter with big feet (10)
Pear - main, or orange, Pippin? neither but still sweet (7,5)
Persephone's acceptance of this turned things chilly (11)
Sfish (8)
Short right & mixed-up egoist becomes morello (8)
Sounds like one that interferes? No, just sits & rots (6)
Stocky horse's head (6)
Symposium for a quiet hearing organ (10, 4)

FLOWERS

A beautiful blue, for thickening sauces (10)
Account for a lifting machine (10)
Avian harbour will produce beer with wet-the-beds(7)
Large sea-snail, small plant (10)
Nic Grundy's little one (5)
Reddish blue, escaped war (6,11)
Sirius - star was in the ascendant (3,4)
The boogie-woogie boy from Company B (5)
Timber opponent sounds like (4,7)
Two strong flavours for one little flower (6,7)
Used to authenticate the official Proverbs (8,4)
Why Cupid's ammunition? (6)

SHRUBS

Aladdin's princess from December to March (6,7)
Did she pour the tea for the Olympians? (4)
Latter half of chilling or warm the lady (4 or 7)
Lepidoptera of the Australian hinterland (9,4)
Make fun of the citrus (4,6)
Nearly killed a briar rose (7)
Nymph pursued by Apollo became a laurel & wrote Rebecca (6)
Oriental syrup source (8,5)
Sounds like it comes from Northern Africa, like the pirates (8)
The lady for Alexandre Dumas fils (8)
Virgin's bower or old man's beard or what? (8)
What you need to sweep-up a shambles (8,5)

FLAVOURINGS & CONDIMENTS

Clever football trick, sometimes gets messi (6)
Five hundred ailing? give them gripe water (4)
Nearly as many affaires as Casanova (6)
One eighth over a half of a petrifying monster (5)
One flavouring or many? (8)
Peppery salad root - with a sore throat? (5-6)
Pointed source of coins (9)
Scrape around for antics (6)
Screwtape's nephew (8)
She dances with Fred (6)
Something (not a definite article) in a big Roman house (7)
Vot is your name? Don't tell him Ian (8)

OTHER EDIBLES

Archer's weaponry, radicle? no a rhizome actually (9)
Capital Israeli painting I throttle (9,9)
Cinque port, but inland (3)
Crashed chariot, past being from Boston (7,4)
Dorothy's Lord Peter's nephew (8)
Food of the gods? Many agree it's derivatives are (5)
Total obliteration - with an indiarubber? (7)
In, in the French inn (9)
Henri IV (4,4,5)
Hot oilbark compounded, looks like turnip, tastes like cabbage (8)
Observe Teen mom and the Chaos - she won (7,4)
Some like it hot with a ukulele (5,4)
Very confused lemon, not a citrus at all (5)

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