The botanical term panicle (Panicula) refers to a richly branched inflorescence of a flowering plant. Each individual flower develops into a fruit (a berry in the case of grapes ). There are several branched lateral axes with flowers arranged one above the other on a main axis.

Depending on the shape, a distinction is made between elongated panicle (1), flattened umbrella panicle (2), funnel panicle or spiral (3) and botryoid without lateral axes (4). The stem framework is called a ridge (rachis). An inflorescence of the vine (Geschein), from which a bunch of grapes develops, is not a bunch (Botrys), but a panicle. This is because a bunch of grapes (5) only has secondary stems without branches and no terminal flower (flower at the tip).
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