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Panicle
Term used in botany to describe a branching of flower heads / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence.[1] Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are often racemes. A panicle may have determinate or indeterminate growth.
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This type of inflorescence is largely characteristic of grasses, such as oat and crabgrass,[lower-alpha 1] as well as other plants such as pistachio and mamoncillo. Botanists use the term paniculate in two ways: "having a true panicle inflorescence"[lower-alpha 2] as well as "having an inflorescence with the form but not necessarily the structure of a panicle".