The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word LOVAGE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result LOVAGE
- Adore getting hold of a good herb
- Enjoy consuming a good herbal flavouring
- Enjoy eating silver plant
- Adore silver inset
- Adore purchasing a good salad plant
- Herb, a guy primarily besotted?
- Take delight in pressing a good herb
- Something precious stuffing duck, herb
- Herb Alpert’s opening note in unimpressive score
- Desire to prune mature plant
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The straight part
We know that "salad plant" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case salad plant = lovage.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does LOVAGE mean?
LOVAGE noun- A perennial Mediterranean herb, Levisticum officinale, with odor and flavor resembling celery.
- A liquor made from this herb.
- Various species in the genus Ligusticum (generally with an adjective to differentiate them from Levisticum)