Racemes

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An inflorescence having stalked flowers arranged singly along an elongated unbranched axis, as in the lily of the valley.

[Latin racmus, a bunch of grapes.]

raceme [rəˈsiːm]

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) an inflorescence in which the flowers are borne along the main stem, with the oldest flowers at the base. It can be simple, as in the foxglove, or compound (see panicle)

[from Latin racēmus bunch of grapes]

raceme (r

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An indeterminate inflorescence in which each flower grows on its own stalk from a common stem. The lily of the valley and snapdragon have racemes. See illustration at inflorescence.

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Noun

raceme - usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first

flower cluster - an inflorescence consisting of a cluster of flowers

panicle - compound raceme or branched cluster of flowers

Translations

raceme [ˈræsiːm] N → racimo m

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Actaea rubra
Actinidia arguta
Alexandria senna
Alexandrian laurel
Alexandrian senna
American barberry
American germander
American hellebore
Amorpha californica
Amorpha fruticosa
Antirrhinum coulterianum
Asphodelus
bastard indigo
bear grass
bird's eye
black locust
bower actinidia
brassavola
Brassia

Exochorda x macranta 'The Bride' has to be the whitest flower of any one I know and the larger type racemes show themselves off so well on the long, slightly cascading stems of this large shrub.

Best of the Bunch Exochorda macranta; Notebook by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)

You can appreciate the long-hanging racemes so much better and this also works well with closely related wisteria.

Purple reign; Add a touch of Mediterranean glamour to your garden ... by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)

Then, every January, it produced pale yellow racemes of flowers with a pleasant, light fragrance, however hard the weather.

Plant of the week by The Journal (Newcastle, England)

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