Unhealthy sounding Italian love for tree (8)
I believe the answer is:
sycamore
'for tree' is the definition.
(sycamore is a kind of tree)
'unhealthy sounding italian love' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'sounding' could be 'e' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'e' is found in the answer.
'love' could be 'amor' (I've seen this in another clue) and 'amor' is located in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sycamore that I've seen before include "Tree - so creamy (anag)" , "Mr O'Casey is in the tree" , "Tree for the odd Rose Macy" , "Tree with winged seeds" , "Tree with two-winged fruit" .)