Flower

The Flowers, known sometimes as the Flowers-that-be, or simply Upstairs, are the sentient vegetable entities which run the PPC. They are not all Flowers -- some are trees, and one is a lichen -- and may or may not still be their natural sizes. However, they are all highly intelligent.

The Flowers are distinguished from their unintelligent cousins by the use of capital letters -- clover is a three-leaved plant with white flowers which grows in fields, while the Clover is the Head of the Department of Finance. Where a Flower is given a name apart from its species -- the Sub Rosa, Captain Dandy, or of course the Sunflower Official, this indicates that they are one of the first generation of Flowers.

The Flowers came into being through a complicated series of events involving astronomically unlikely coincidences which the Legal Department would surely not allow had they been in existence. They were the founders of the Organisation which became the PPC, and constituted its original Agents.