Calyx and Peduncle

Calyx and Peduncle: Botany Special Crimes Unit is a television program in the CSI (Crime Scene Investigations) series.

Premise

Inga Calyx and Bonaventure "Bon-Bon" Peduncle are police officers and botanical researchers in the Botany Special Crimes Unit of the Algorithmic Paradigm Treaty Organization (APTO).

Episodes

Each episode focuses on a topical botany-related crime:

• The retroactive cancellation of the Green Revolution ("Requiem for a Green")
• The remote real-time manipulation of psilocybin molecules as they enter a user's blood-brain threshhold ("Change the Channel")
• When a trandimensional orchid collector reprograms the Earth for planetary hothouse mode, Calyx and Peduncle must discover a cure for the Zombie Orchid plague before it consumes Peduncle — and all of humanity!

Development

TO_DO

Origin

I wanted to sprout avocado seeds, so I did some reading and found that one immerses the seed partway in water, with the peduncle down.

Thus Peduncle. I will be honest: the word makes me think of "pederast" and "uncle", which is a very ugly combination. I use humor to deal with this ugliness: a man named Peduncle must be a comic figure, well-intentioned perhaps, but something of a bumbler, or a dandy, or both.

Calyx was another word from botany that had been on my mind for a while, and no sooner had I personified Peduncle than "Calyx" leapt to mind as a buddy-cop figure.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• Gnomonic Sigil Investigations (GSI) - a similar television series, expressed as mathematical functions
• I Know What You Did Last Zummer - references the Zombie Orchid plague

External links

• Peduncle (botany) @ Wikipedia
• Sepal @ Wikipedia - calyx refers to sepals collectively