Family around start of evening eats plants (10)

I believe the answer is:

celandines

'plants' is the definition.
(celandine is a kind of plant)

'family around start of evening eats' is the wordplay.
'family' becomes 'clan' (I've seen this before**).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'start of' says to take the initial letters.
'eats' becomes 'dines' (I've seen this before).
The initial letter of 'evening' is 'e'.
'clan' enclosing 'e' is 'celan'.
'celan'+'dines'='CELANDINES'

(Another definition for celandines that I've seen is " Flowers".)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.

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