When I was little I asked my grandmother what a certain tree in her yard was called. She said it was a "Crate Myrtle Tree." I thought she said a "Great Turtle Tree." I constantly climbed it looking for tiny baby turtles. To this day I still call it the Turtle Tree even though I know better.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- When I was a child i thought turtle wax, was to wax turtles.— J.P.
- I used to believe that buckeyes (from the tree) were baby porcupines...— Minerva
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon