Plant Anatomy Umbel. A panicle is a branched raceme in which each branch has more than one flower as in the astilbe Astilbe. This organization is the same for compound spikes catkins corymbs and heads.
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The word was coined in botanical usage in the 1590s from Latin. In botany a umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks which spread from a common point some what like umbrella ribs. An umbel is an inflorescence with several branches arising from a common point.
The flowers are arrayed in a spiral around the inflorescence axis or branches or occur singly or in several ranks.
Our umbellicious 6 plant collection includes Myrrhis odorata Eryngium variifolium Eryngium eburneum Ligusticum lucidum Seseli libanotis and Cenolophium denudatum. The branches arise from the main axis form primary umbel. The flowers arise from each branch forms secondary umbel or partial umbel. In a compound umbel see photograph all the umbel inflorescences arise from a common point and appear to be at about the same level eg wild carrot.
