Oddly brown - as sap, in small pot plant? (6)
I believe the answer is:
bonsai
'small pot plant?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both plants as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'oddly brown as sap in' is the wordplay.
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters (letters in the odd-numbered positions are used).
'brown'+'as'+'sap'+'in'='brownassapin'
The alternate letters of 'brownassapin' are 'BONSAI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bonsai that I've seen before include "Mini-tree growing" , "Dwarf tree cultivation" , "Japanese art of growing miniature trees" , "Art of dwarfing shrubs" , "Japanese art of growing dwarf trees" .)