The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word JACARANDA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result JACARANDA
- Beginning to jump over a vehicle and a tree
- What’s about to be planted in pot with a tropical tree
- Judge with an estate, perhaps, and a flowering tree
- Drink containing calcium and root of acacia tree
- German agreed about ancient golf club being an exotic wood
- Sack’s contents in grate with a tropical wood
- Shake with anger, initially, ringing about tree
- And Raja goes round saving up account of tree
- Pot carried around with a plant
- Jack in front of a vehicle and a tree
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The straight part
We know that "tree" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case tree = jacaranda.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 JACARANDA mean?
JACARANDA noun- Any of several trees, of the genus Jacaranda, native to tropical South America, that have pale purple, funnel-shaped flowers.
- The hard, dark wood of these trees.
- A trade name for similar hardwood timber from certain species of Dalbergia, notably Dalbergia frutescens, Dalbergia nigra and Dalbergia refusa.