A thyrse is a type of

inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a mai ...

in which the main axis grows indeterminately, and the subaxes (branches) have determinate growth.

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Syringa ''Syringa'' is a genus of 12 currently recognized species of flowering plant, flowering woody plants in the olive family or Oleaceae called lilacs. These lilacs are native to woodland and scrub from southeastern Europe to eastern Asia, and wid ...

'', lilac File:Banana Maria Sibylla Merian 1705 plate XII.png, The thyrse of a banana plant has side branches which become hands of bananas File:Vitex agnus-castus 002.JPG, The inflorescence of '' Vitex agnus-castus'' has branches, each of which is a thyrse

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