I used to believe that the tall red plants known as 'hot pokers' were actually burning hot and used to be too scared to touch them in case I got burnt!
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to believe that the brown potato chips, you know the burnt ones, were worm infested.— Eric Rustman
- I thought that 'burning' DVDs and CDs was literally incinerating them. — These Tunes Are FIRE!
- I fully believed, up until about 6 years old, that the word 'accident' was a noun that meant 'burnt toast'.— Karl Goetz
- my grandma told me not to eat pizza coz the "brown squiggly" stuff there arent burnt cheese but WORMS!
— Mimi - I thought plants only grew when people were not looking at them.Anon
- I used to think heirloom plants grew antiques— Honorary intern Hector