My great-grandma had this 10-inch clear plastic tree, and she would stick gumdrops on the ends of the branches. I thought they grew from the tree until I was 14.
A childhood belief about plants

others believed things like this
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny
- My grandma told me she used to think pigs came out of tree stumps.Anon
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to believe that wind was created by the trees, that it came out of the ends of their branches. — STeve
- I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I used to believe that broccoli grew on trees. It looks like a tree, so it made sense, right?— Catherine...