When I was little my sister and I, and everyone we hung around with, believed that common sumac (the kind with the big red conelike flowers) was something horribly deadly called "Poison Sycamoe." If you touched it, you would die. Imagine my surprise when I read in a nature book that you could brew the red flowers into a lemony flavored tea!
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- i believed that carrots with milk was a deadly poison until i was 11.— Jennifer
- I used to believe that worms were the lips of the dead and that green pepper seeds were deadly poison.— Gayle
- All flowers had exactly five petals and two leaves.— MD Caruso
- I used to believe that flowerbeds were beds for flowers.— Nina Green
- When I was a child I used to belive that fairies were born from the flowers.— fantasy
- I used to believe people grew from spores and when we got old, we'd grow leaves and flowers etc— Calvin (from my pet tiger Hobbes)