I used to believe that you could be arrested for picking a Golden Poppy in California because that was the state flower. My friends and I firmly believed this and once in a while we would pick a poppy from our own yards to show how "bad" we could be.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- When i was little my poppy said he had to go to miami and then i told my dad poppy is going to his ami.— Billy Bob Joe
- Once my brother said me, the poppy seed in fact is ant. I have not eaten poppy seed for many years.
Anon - I used to believe that the mole in my belly button was a poppy seed from a muffin I ate.Anon
- I used to believe that California was my house, not the state I lived in.— Katie
- I thought the song Hotel California by the Eagles said "Welcome to Oakdale California— JewLea
- My great-grandfather firmly believed, and had me convinced, that SPAM was mouse meat. — texasblue