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The plant has a genteel true rose fragrance and bears umbels of small pink blooms.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2022

Something else to get excited about is the possibility of otherworldly Hoya flowers, often clustered in umbels and sometimes even fragrant.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2021

He is also partial to dill’s yellow umbels, its ferny texture and its inclination to sow around.

From New York Times • Feb. 17, 2021

The bloom is followed by a wave of fruition: blueberries, orange umbels of mountain ash, elderberries, chokecherries, and pine nuts.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2019

These leaves are deciduous, and as they fall off, are succeeded by bunches of flowers, which grow in umbels, rising from one centre stem, of about three or four inches in length.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous