The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word YUCCA
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result YUCCA
- Shrub posh cricket club kept in ultimately dry area
- Brief expression of contempt about a Mexican plant
- Something to put in a pot; your cocoa, occasionally?
- Plant seen in your cocoa, intermittently
- Precision soars after scrapping vehicle plant
- Plant that’s disgusting mostly with crab, oddly
- ‘The Joshua Tree’ — carbon copy by half of U2 in a year looking back
- Perennial disgust expressed by one
- Grower heads for York urgently — Christmas cactus aboard
- Accountant briefly returns to support your odd plant
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The straight part
We know that "Something to put in a pot" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case something to put in a pot = yucca.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 YUCCA mean?
YUCCA noun- Any of several evergreen plants of the genus Yucca, having long, pointed, and rigid leaves at the top of a woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms.
- The yuca (cassava).