Flower-person

The Flower-people are a sapient species of humanoid flora from Venus, known for their psychic abilities and hedonistic culture. They live in high mountainous valleys covered in paradisiac meadows, and are enemies of the Swimmers.

Biology
Flower-people are petite child-like humanoids and have pale white skin with just a faint tint of green underneath it. Their hair is short, and curls up in petal-like structures, the color of which varies from individual to individual, ranging from deep blue to scarlet to purely white. Their eyes are blue, and described as strange-looking.

Their psychic abilities allow them to communicate by telepathy, control both plant and animal life, and even create fire by telekinesis.

Being plants, Flower-people consume soil and sunlight to grow. When they're mature, they produce seeds, and after that move on to their "finish-place" and wait for death to come.

Culture and society
Flower-people are a sapient species, but live in loosely-organized groups and have no technology whatsoever, as their telekinesis presumably would render most of it redundant. They wear no clothes and have no needs other than sunlight and soil to feed on.

They're curious and hedonistic creatures which live solely to "play" with the elements of the world around them, such as the wind, animals and other plants. Apart from their blood-feud with the Swimmers (with whom they compete for territory), they seem to have no other worries. Those who are elderly or sick are sent to the "finish-place": a graveyard-canyon where they simply wait for their death. The others don't spare a thought about those who have already gone, as they only appreciate things that are still beautiful, and care not for what is "ugly" and/or "broken".

Appearances

 * "The Vanishing Venusians", by Leigh Brackett (1945)