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I help with nice cryptic for Araucaria (5,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chile pine

'for araucaria' is the definition.
(chile pine is a kind of araucaria)

'i help with nice cryptic' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'cryptic' is an anagram indicator (a cryptic or obscure order of the letters).
'i'+'help'+'nice'='ihelpnice'
'ihelpnice' is an anagram of 'CHILE-PINE'.

(Other definitions for chile pine that I've seen before include "wood from South America" , "One [TYPE OF TREE]" , "Monkey puzzle tree - Araucaria" , "Leaving body" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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