Sentence examples for umbel from inspiring English sources

The flowers are often arranged in a conspicuous umbel (a flat-topped cluster of flowers).

"It started with a carrot that had gone on in its second year to make a beautiful lacy umbel of a flower" is how Madison begins, in her own garden.

She came to this idea, she explains, after staring at a carrot top in her garden whose "beautiful lacy umbel of a flower" got her to thinking about some of its neighbors with a strong family resemblance, plants like parsley, fennel, cilantro and anise.

This summer, she drove into the city to surprise Michael Foust, the executive chef and owner of a farm-to-table restaurant called the Farmhouse, bringing with her an immature umbel of parsnip seed, which he tasted and incorporated into the day's chilled parsnip soup.

It seems that the white froth of this umbel is the perfect "glue" for planting schemes.

A flock of pigeons forages beneath beech on the shady side of this valley and, in the meadow by Boar's Bridge, every umbel, frond and stem is coated in ice, even the alders growing on the edge by Morden Farm.

This colonnade, which also has papyrus-umbel capitals, may have been intended for the central nave of a hypostyle hall similar to that at Karnak, but the side aisles were not built; instead, enclosing walls were built down either side.

Its small, yellowish white flowers form loose umbels.

Other types of indeterminate inflorescences include umbels and capitula, or heads.

The youngest flower is terminal or central in umbels and in heads.

The family has large, usually alternate, compound leaves, five-parted flowers arranged in compound umbels, and fruits that are generally fleshy (berries or drupes).