My mum had a rubber plant and she used to steal rubbers from her work and put them on the plant each month and told me that it actually used to grow the rubbers and thats where all the rubbers in the world came from!
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- if you eat a seed, the plant will grow in your tummyAnon
- I used to believe that if I ate a fruit's seeds, a plant would grow in my stomach.— Natalia Castillejo
- When I was a kid, I used to believe a nuclear plant was a clouds plant and could make magic clouds.— Tommy
- When I was a kid I took two showers becaue I thought my hair was a plant and needed the water to grow— Tim
- I used to believe that rootbeer was made from the roots of a beer plant.Anon
- I use to believe that your hair grew because you wash i.e like watering a plant — HJON