A botanical crossword
Across
- 8. Moisture-loving tree with buttress roots (common name) (7)
- 10. Hook grasses (Uncinia) have recently been transferred to this genus (5)
- 14. Māori name of the plant also known as wild Irishman (9)
- 16. Species that mimics horopito (Pseudowintera colorata) (scientific name) (10, 7)
- 18. Word that means obtaining native plants from local areas (11)
- 19. Nationality of Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy (7)
- 21. Stalk that holds up an anther (8)
- 22. New Zealand tree whose wood was used by early settlers to make butter boxes for export (9)
- 24. Leaf stalk (7)
- 25. Species of speargrass/Aciphylla that grows around the Wellington coast (scientific name) (9)
- 27. A plant that completes its lifecycle in one growing season (6)
- 28. Small flowered Veronica tree with knobbly trunk found at Te Kopahou reserve (10)
- 29. Genus of NZ’s only indigenous fully parasitic plant (scientific name) (12)
- 31. One of the only two NZ species in the Proteaceae (common name) (8)
- 32. Leptinella _____ a threatened species with a population near Titahi Bay (4)
Down
- 1. NZ plant genus that once killed an elephant (scientific name) (8)
- 2. Small shrub similar in appearance to 1 Down but distinguished by its hair-like stipules (scientific name) (8,6)
- 3. Number of southern beech species in New Zealand (4)
- 4. Mass of pollen grains in an orchid (8)
- 5. Māori name for Muehlenbeckia astonii (8)
- 6. Floating native fern (6,5)
- 7. Early NZ botanist who was also a missionary and printer (7)
- 9. A popular garden plant from the Three Kings Islands. All plants today descend from a single individual (10,8)
- 11. A plant that grows on another plant (but which is not parasitic) (8)
- 12. Large brown algae (4)
- 13. Tallest moss in the world (scientific name) (8,7)
- 15. The most speciose genus of New Zealand shrubs (8)
- 17. Sophora species that only grows around Cook Strait (scientific name) (7)
- 20. Genus of distinctive introduced orange fungus (scientific name) (12)
- 23. The perching lily genus Collospermum has now been transferred to this genus (7)
- 26. Tree whose wood was used by Māori for fishing floats (4)
- 30. Seed coat (5)