The __________ is the national symbol in Canada, and it can be found in its flag and coins.

It is produced from the sap of certain maples, especially the sugar maple.

A low-growing clover-like plant with three-lobed leaves, used as the national emblem of Ireland.

The plant with leaves that fold or droop when touched.

A bulbous spring-flowering plant of the lily family, with boldly coloured cup-shaped flowers.

A small garden plant that has flowers of many different colours with rounded petals

Any of various evergreen trees that bear cones and have clusters of needle-shaped leaves.

A plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.

It is the protective skin of trees and plants that produces wood.

The conical or rounded woody fruit of a pine tree, with scales which open to release the seeds.

A __________ is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese Cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is sometimes called sakura after the Japanese.

A double-flowered cultivated variety of clove pink, with grey-green leaves and showy pink, white, or red flowers.

A plant with complex flowers that are often showy or bizarrely shaped, having a large specialized lip (labellum) and frequently a spur.

A tall North American plant of the daisy family, with very large golden-rayed flowers. Sunflowers are cultivated for their edible seeds, which are an important source of oil for cooking and margarine.

Many __________ contain alkaloids and are a source of drugs such as morphine and codeine.

A succulent plant with a thick fleshy stem which typically bears spines, lacks leaves, and has brilliantly coloured flowers.

A widely distributed weed of the daisy family, with a rosette of leaves and large bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts.

An area of land and its buildings, used for growing crops and rearing animals.

A giant woody grass which is grown chiefly in the tropics.

To put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Vegetation consisting of typically short plants with long, narrow leaves, growing wild or cultivated on lawns and pasture, and as a fodder crop.

The unit of reproduction of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.

The process of increasing in size

It is not found in large numbers and so of interest or value.