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Inflorescences

 14-Simple umbel

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Umbel- a racemose inflorescence in which all the individual flower stalks arise in a cluster at the top of the peduncle and are of about equal length.

This example is blood-flower (Asclepias currassavica).

Photo by K. R. Robertson and D. L. Nickrent of plants cultivated at the University of Illinois.
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