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A panicle is a compound raceme
Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate growth and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called Pedicel s — along the axis....
, a loose, much-branched indeterminate
Indeterminate growth

In biology and especially botany, indeterminate growth refers to growth that is not terminated in contrast to determinate growth that stops once a genetically pre-determined structure has completely formed....
 inflorescence
Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches....
 with pedicellate flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s (and fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
) attached along the secondary branches (in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes).

This type of inflorescence is largely characteristic of grasses like oat
Oat

The common oat is a species of Cereal Agriculture for its seed, which is known by the same name . While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed....
 and crabgrass, as well as other plants such as pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
 and mamoncillo
Mamoncillo

The mamoncillo , also known as mam?n , chenet , guaya, gnep, ginep, skinnip genip, guinep, ginnip, ken?p , quenepa , ackee and Spanish lime, limoncillo , is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalised over a wide area of t...
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A panicle is a compound raceme
Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate growth and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called Pedicel s — along the axis....
, a loose, much-branched indeterminate
Indeterminate growth

In biology and especially botany, indeterminate growth refers to growth that is not terminated in contrast to determinate growth that stops once a genetically pre-determined structure has completely formed....
 inflorescence
Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a Plant stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches....
 with pedicellate flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s (and fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
) attached along the secondary branches (in other words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes).

This type of inflorescence is largely characteristic of grasses like oat
Oat

The common oat is a species of Cereal Agriculture for its seed, which is known by the same name . While oats are suitable for human consumption as oatmeal and rolled oats, one of the most common uses is as livestock feed....
 and crabgrass, as well as other plants such as pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
 and mamoncillo
Mamoncillo

The mamoncillo , also known as mam?n , chenet , guaya, gnep, ginep, skinnip genip, guinep, ginnip, ken?p , quenepa , ackee and Spanish lime, limoncillo , is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalised over a wide area of t...
. Botanists use the term paniculate in two ways: "having a true panicle inflorescence" as well as "having an inflorescence with the form but not necessarily the structure of a panicle".

A corymb is similar to a panicle with the same branching structure, but with the lower flowers having longer stems, thus giving a flattish top superficially resembling an umbel
Umbel

An umbel is an inflorescence which consists of a number of short flower stalks which are equal in length and spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs....
. Many species in the Maloideae
Maloideae

The Maloideae is a large subfamily of the rose family Rosaceae with 28 genera, including approximately 1100 species worldwide with most species occurring in the temperate Northern Hemisphere....
, such as hawthorn
Crataegus

Hawthorn is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the rose family, Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America....
s and rowan
Rowan

The rowans or mountain-ashes are plants in the family Rosaceae, in the genus Sorbus, subgenus Sorbus. They are native throughout the cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with the highest species diversity in the mountains of western China and the Himalaya, where numerous apomixis microspecies occur....
s, produce their flowers in corymbs.

A thyrse is a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose
Cyme

Cyme or CYME can refer to:* Cyme, a kind of Inflorescence#Organisation *Kymi, ancient Cumae, a city in Euboea, Greece*Cyme or Kymi, ancient Greek colony on the coast of Aeolia, present-day Namurt in Turkey...
 subaxes, making its paniculate nature hard to discern. Many Ceanothus
Ceanothus

Ceanothus Carolus Linnaeus is a genus of about 50?60 species of shrubs or small trees in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. The genus is confined to North America, the center of its distribution in California, with some species in the eastern United States and southeast Canada, and others extending as far south as Guatemala....
 species have thyrsiform inflorescences, notably Ceanothus thyrsiflorus.

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