Plant crossword

1. The aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge
4. Underground stem used extensively as a spice and in Asian medicine
5. Food conducting tissue in plants
7. Part of the plant that is above the ground and includes stem, leaves, flowers and buds
8. Parts of a cell
10. Poisonous woody vine
12. Plants having thick fleshy leaves or stems for storing water
14. Food group whose plants return nitrogen to the soil
17. One of the agents for dispersal of seeds
19. Tall plant belonging to the Lily family cultivated for its shoots
21. The perennial plants are smaller than trees and have low, hard and woody stems
23. This contains the seeds of a plant
24. A weed with yellow flowers, belonging to the daisy family
25. Process of transfer of pollen grains
26. It contains the female reproductive cells
27. Period of dryness that seeds go through after seed dispersal and before germination

2. Soft tissue of a plant that takes part in photosynthesis
3. Perennial evergreens and the largest members of the grass family
6. Seeds having two embryonic leaves or cotyledons
9. The onion plant belongs to this group
11. Specific arrangement of flowers and special structures on a stem
13. Food storage tissue in the seeds of flowering plants
15. Process by which seeds sprout and produce new plants
16. Flower belonging to the Iris family, also called the ‘Sword Lily’
18. The main root of a plant that tapers and grows vertically downward from which other roots sprout laterally
20. Plants with their ovules enclosed in an ovary
22. Male reproductive parts of a plant