When I was little, I though that some cactuses were soft because of the white fuzzy effect made by the many spines on the plant, I believed this until one day I decided to pet it.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to believe that rootbeer was made from the roots of a beer plant.Anon
- When I was 5, I thought cats were spawned from moss, since moss was so soft. Made sense to me.Anon
- i used to believe that clouds were made from the thick smoke that came out of power plant towers.— Rick Shaw
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- i used to think that at night all of my teachers turned into my soft toys so they could keep and eye on me.— paranoid
- Before the invention of the camera, everything looked like a cartoon with the quality/effect of oil painting.— MD Caruso