I believed when a friend told me that the glossy leaves on the bush in our front yard tasted like candy. The red ones were cinnamon and the green ones were mint. I finally tried tasting one day...they didn't.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I used to believe viagra was a mint and that it was an everyday mint you could buy from the post office!!!— Bartoner
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- i thought president Bush was an actuall bush.— oops
- Salt is bad tasting sugar.— cobra
- I believed that leaves on trees only became individual when you you close to them, and then I got glasses.— nola