Crossword-Solution: CROTONS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Ata’s father had planted crotons round his property, and they grew in coloured profusion, gay and brilliant; they fenced the land with flame.

What flower is your honour's ladyship commanding for the table?” “Just ourselves?” she said, looking at the crotons in the great hall.

The huts were dotted about irregularly on a natural grass lawn, and large trees, clumps of bamboo, coconuts, bread-fruit trees, and bright-coloured "crotons" added a great deal to the picturesqueness of the village.

Plant life here was exceedingly beautiful and interesting, especially high up in the mountains, palms, _pandanus,_ cycads, crotons, _acalyphas, loranths,_ aroids, _freycinetias,_ ferns and orchids being strongly represented, and among the latter may be mentioned a fine orange _dendrobium_ and a pink _calanthe._ I found in flower a celebrated creeper, which Ratu Lala had told me to look out for.

The town is on both banks of the Waiandina River, with large "ivi" and other beautiful trees overhanging the water; brilliant coloured crotons, _dracænas,_ and other fine plants imparted a wealth of colour to the scene, and many of the grand old trees were heavily laden with ferns and orchids.