As a child, I was frequently on trips with my family to the Appalachian mountains, and that was the one place where I'd then seen Rhododendrons, which grow in abundance there. But we went on very few hiking trails, and what hiking we did do was very short, because my father had a bad knee. So most of our observatins were from or near roads, and all rhododendrons that I clearly saw were along or near roads. So I thought that was the only place they grew, and that the "rhod-" part of their name came from their occurrence alongside roads.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- that Uttoxeter was a huge and important place, cause all roads in Stafforshire point towards it— rosy
- I used to believe that the lines on roads were for motorcycles to drive on.— Downes
- I used to think oil patches on the roads was dead rainbows— Si
- i used to believe that the signs for curvy roads were for snake crossingsAnon
- I used to think the reflectors in the middle of roads were pieces of cheese!Anon
- I used to think that the right sides of roads are empty in England, since everyone drives on the left.Anon