Changes

[[Image:QALace2675.JPG|240px|thumb|Umbels on [[Wild Carrot]] ''Daucus carota'' (Apiaceae)]]

[[Image:QALace2675.JPG|240px|thumb|Umbels on [[Wild Carrot]] ''Daucus carota'' (Apiaceae)]]

[[Image:Fatsia japonica1.jpg|left|thumb|240px|An umbel on ''[[Fatsia|Fatsia japonica]]'' (Araliaceae)]]

[[Image:Fatsia japonica1.jpg|left|thumb|240px|An umbel on ''[[Fatsia|Fatsia japonica]]'' (Araliaceae)]]

Umbels are a characteristic of plants such as [[carrot]], [[parsley]], [[dill]], and [[fennel]] in the family [[Apiaceae]], and [[ivy]], [[aralia]] and [[fatsia]] in the family [[Araliaceae]].

Corymbose or [[indeterminate]] [[cluster]] with [[branch]]es or rays arising from a common point and about equal in length, resembling framework of umbrella; [[umbel]]s are characteristic of the [[Umbellifera]].{{SCH}}

 

A compressed [[cyme]] is called '''umbelliform''' if it resembles an umbel.