I must have pulled flowers from my grandmothers Fushia bush because I was told if you touch the long stamen in the centre of the flower you would die. At 66 years I still cannot bring myself to touch it.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- When i was litttle i used to believe that if a had a long enough ladder a could touch the sky.— Sarah Howell
- My sister told me not to touch hail stones because they were radioactive. — Mary K
- I used to think watering dead flowers would bring them back to life.— Natasha
- I used to think that you could bring dead flowers back to life if you watered them.Anon
- I used to believe that eyes where just like bubbles and if you where to touch them they would pop.— Adam
- If you touch your bellybutton, it will get infected.Anon