The plants grow from a bulb or short rhizome; the inflorescence is an apparent umbel formed of several shortened monochasial cymes and subtended by a pair of large bracts.

terminal scorpioid cymes, small blue, pink or white flowers, a five-cleft persistent calyx, a salveror funnel-shaped corolla, having its mouth closed by five short scales and hard, smooth, shining nutlets.

The inflorescence in the family Boraginaceae are usually regarded as true scorpioid cymes.

Here there are scorpioid cymes of pairs of flowers, each pair consisting of an older and a younger flower.

In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.

In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

The so-called catkins of the birch are, in reality, spikes of contracted dichasial cymes.

Flowers in Cymes.

Biparous Cyme (Dichotomous),including 3-5chotomou3 Cymes (Dichasium, Cymose Umbel, Anthela).

Raceme of Scorpioid Cymes, Horse-chestnut.

Compound Umbel of Dichotomous Cymes,Laurustinus.

Capitulum of contracted Scorpioid Cymes (Glomerulus), Sea-pink.

White flowers are borne in May or June in dense, flat cymes, up to 5cm (2in) across.

Flowers are borne in terminal or axillary panicles, clusters or cymes which are spherical, domed or flattened like a lacecap hydrangea.

They are borne in terminal or axillary panicles, clusters, corymbs or cymes, which are often spherical or domed.

Flowers are borne in terminal cymes and may be pink, red, violet, purple, blue or white.

The plants grow from a bulb or short rhizome; the inflorescence is an apparent umbel formed of several shortened monochasial cymes and subtended by a pair of large bracts.

terminal scorpioid cymes, small blue, pink or white flowers, a five-cleft persistent calyx, a salveror funnel-shaped corolla, having its mouth closed by five short scales and hard, smooth, shining nutlets.

The inflorescence in the family Boraginaceae are usually regarded as true scorpioid cymes.

Here there are scorpioid cymes of pairs of flowers, each pair consisting of an older and a younger flower.

In such cases the cymes are described as spiked, racemose, or panicled, according to circumstances.

In Saxifraga umbrosa (London-pride) and in the horse-chestnut we meet with a raceme of scorpioid cymes; in sea-pink, a capitulum of contracted scorpioid cymes (often called a glomerulus); in laurustinus, a compound umbel of dichasial cymes; a scorpioid cyme of capitula in Vernonia scorpioides.

The so-called catkins of the birch are, in reality, spikes of contracted dichasial cymes.

Flowers in Cymes.

Biparous Cyme (Dichotomous),including 3-5chotomou3 Cymes (Dichasium, Cymose Umbel, Anthela).

Raceme of Scorpioid Cymes, Horse-chestnut.

Compound Umbel of Dichotomous Cymes,Laurustinus.

Capitulum of contracted Scorpioid Cymes (Glomerulus), Sea-pink.

Flowers are borne in terminal cymes and may be pink, red, violet, purple, blue or white.

Flowers are with splashes of pink and are born terminally on several-flowered racemes, cymes, or corymbose inflorescences.