Fox tailed around town in Oz plantation (9)
I believe the answer is:
salicetum
'oz plantation' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'fox tailed around town in' is the wordplay.
'fox' becomes 'stump' (I've seen this before).
'tailed' means to remove the last letter (to tail something can mean to remove its end).
'around town' becomes 'alice' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'stump' with its last letter taken off is 'stum'.
'stum' going around 'alice' is 'SALICETUM'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for salicetum that I've seen is " Such trees supply bats".)