When i was small i liked reading about animals, and then i soon got to know the way of naming animals and trees from kingdom to class to family then genus and species..

One day while cycling around somewhere in my neighbourhood, i heard these 2 woman who were drunk screaming 'peanus' and i thought that peanus is another species of peanut.. until i was 11 years old

kee

Around 1984, I found this funky-looking mushroom in the backyard. The cap was about a big and thick as a piece of steak. But, it coloring was disgusting (orange, yellow and green)! On top of that, brown sludge was oozing out the side. I pummeled it with a plastic baseball bat. My Dad said now I had 'got poison on the bat.' Impulsively, I "cleaned" it off with my hand. Now I had 'poison on my hands.' He told me to go inside and wash my hands. As I was going inside, I tasted my finger. Then I realized "...What have I done??? I've eaten mushroom poison!!!" I now assumed I was going to die. "2000" randomly popped into my head. "I have only until the year 2000 to live!" ...Well, it is now 2004 and I don't feel one bit ill. --How silly.

Will

In elementary school in the play field we had oak tree's. On these oak trees there we these sprays of needle like things that I was told that if you stare at them they will spit on you. To this day I still don't stare at those things...LOL

Michele

One time at camp I was told to go get bark from a tree for a project. I picked up a paper plate, went over to the tree and asked nicely for some bark while holding out the plate, as if the tree would voluntarily drop some bark, whatever bark was. Then another student came up and peeled bark off the tree for me. I was nauseated.

Robert

I always used to think that trees made the wind (well it would make sense wouldn't it!)

Han

I used to believe that you could get to wonderland by standing behind a big tree...

Karissa Sasso

I used to believe that for every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows

Farino

When i was little i always wanted a dog so i would blow those danddy lions and i would hope my wish would come true but one day my dad told me that im doing it wrong thats why my wish hasent come true he said you have to eat them so i put one in my mouth and thought it taseted nasty then he started to laugh and said i was just kidding but hey i endded up getting a dog!

dont have one

As a little girl i was thinking that adults were growing like plants do. I even imagined how my parents were showing though the grey asphalt(ground) before my building. t

Franny

i used to believe that the grass was made of dinosuar snot

sabby

When I was about 2 years old, we lived in a different house. When we passed up a group of pine trees surrounding the road on the way to the elementary school, I thought the trees were dinosaurs. Because of that, I screamed "THE DINOSAURS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!! THE DINOSAURS ARE COMING!!!!!!!!!!"

i DON'T LIKE DINOSAURS!!!!!!

i used to beleive all the trees were for sale not the land

lee

*old grandad voice* when i was young my dad showed me the Dr who shows. very entertaining till one day my mum suggested we go down the garden to get in the "garlics". the site of a 5 year old doin the "exterminate" stil brings tears to her eyes

gaz

I used to think that cattails (you know.. they grow on the riverbanks, etc) tasted like corndogs.

I never ate one, though. Promise.

Anon

when i was little, i remember this big orange flower growing in my yard, and i thought it was particularly ugly, so i showed my cousin and he thought it was ugly too. we were then convinced that the flower had AIDS and we would get it if we touched it....sad i know.

nn

We had a tree near our house when I was little, and I was scared of it. I called it the Sorry Tree. I even had a dream that it smashed up our house once.

K

I can't remember where I picked this one up, but since I was little I've called dandeliion seeds fairies.

betty

if you swallowed grape seeds, then, after you died, your next life would be like a vine plant growing into vineyards with grapes.

alexis rzewski

one of my first memories is of my mom pointing out poision ivy to me and telling me to stay away from it. I kept looking where she was pointing, but couldn't see it - I was looking for an animal of some kind, not a plant.

Anon

I used to watch 'Day Of The Triffids' when I was a child and feared that certain large plants would chase me and kill me.

Tony