Chop up, stir and boil fruits of hops (8)
I believe the answer is:
strobili
'fruits of hops' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both plants as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'chop up stir and boil' is the wordplay.
'chop up' indicates anagramming the letters (I've seen this in other clues).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'stir' put after 'boil' is 'boilstir'.
'boilstir' is an anagram of 'STROBILI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for strobili that I've seen is " Cones".)