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Fool European collecting new trophy for parasitic plant (10)

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I believe the answer is:

saprophyte

'parasitic plant' is the definition.
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'fool european collecting new trophy' is the wordplay.
'fool' becomes 'sap' ('sap' can be a synonym of 'fool'**).
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'collecting' indicates putting letters inside.
'new' is an anagram indicator.
'sap'+'e'='sape'
'trophy' is an anagram of 'rophyt'.
'sape' going around 'rophyt' is 'SAPROPHYTE'.

'for' is the link.

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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