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Frau Merkel's current carbon storage plant? (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

angelica

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'plant?' is the definition.
(angelica is a kind of plant)

'frau merkel's current carbon storage' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'current' could be 'i' (symbol for electric current) and 'i' is found in the answer.
'carbon' could be 'c' (C is the chemical symbol for carbon) and 'c' is found in the answer.
'merkel' could be 'angela' (I've seen this before) and 'angela' is found within the leftover letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for angelica that I've seen before include "sweetly-decorative thing" , "Candied stem, decorates cake" , "Candied stalks used to decorate cakes etc" , "Candied stems of a plant" , "Candied plant stalks" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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