plants

my sister and I used to tell our younger brother that the weeds by the fence were actually spinach and that if he ate them he would become strong like Popeye. He did. And he went back for more when he felt he needed more strength.

CRG

Up until I was in the 7th Grade, I used to believe that corn grew in the ground, not on the corn stalks.

Anon

The first time I ever saw yucca plants, my mother told me they were pineapple plants and that the pineapples themselves grew underground. I believed that for quite some time. I still don't know if my mother ever thought it was really true.

Julie

i used to believe that if I got near poison ivy, my arms and legs would fall off. I spent years scared to death to go out in the woods.

Missy

I used to believe in "burr magnets". I had a winter coat that was one. Every time I played in the ravine, I would come home with burrs on my coat, even though I didn't go anywhere near a burdock bush!

Cathy P.

I use to believe that if you planted sugar beets with corn on the cob, that it would make the corn a lot sweeter

Ginny Meyer

My friend believed for years that cheeseplants ate people. There was one at our school which she would run past every day, terrified. She is still bitter about this.

Anon

I used to believe that sea anemones could reach out and grab people.

Anon

i used to belief that if i will be brave enough to go out at midnight under a full moon and to stand and wait in front of a banana tree, it's bunch's heart(flower) will open up and it's sap will give me power of invisibility =)

kiko

I used to believe that leaves had feelings , and whenever I was making "soup" in our backyard with crunched up leaves, I'd always say sorry to the leaves that I couldnt crunch up and make into stew.

Julia

When I was little, my mother told me that if you held a buttercup (flower) under your chin and your chin turned yellow, it meant that you liked butter. I remember my friends and I always holding up buttercups to our chins and saying, "Do you like butter?" Little did I know it was just the "reflection" of the yellow flower making your chin yellow!

Nancy

My mother used to prevent me from eating types of berries that were inedible to humans by telling me that they were "bird-berries, not people-berries." I beleived until the age of fifteen that "bird-berry" was the proper name of the plant.

Anon

I'm not sure why I thought this but I remember realizing that all dafodil flowers spoke Chinese to me and all I had to do was put my ear up to them and listen carefully. I remeber once I did this in the car on my way to my grandparents house for Easter and hearing the dafodil tell me secrets of the world in "Chinese" and I understood everything the dafodil told me. FYI- I am not Chinese, nor have I even spoken/learned Chinese.

Zo

when i was about four, i remember being at my grandparent's house eating a hamburger. and i got the brillant idea that if i planted the seseame seeds from the bun in the ground, that i would have a hamburger tree!!! however, a hanburger tree never grew....

marisa

It was common "knowledge" where I lived that if you picked dandelions then you would wet the bed.

Holly

Once when I was about seven, my older sister told me that people would come out at night and,color our leaves on our trees and then drop them all on the ground.

Anon

When I was 4 or 5 I was startled by a white spider that somehow resembled the white "cap" of a dandelion. (Not the seeds or the petals, but the part it all rests on.)

After that, I viewed all of these plants with suspicion. Obviously, they played some part in this spider's life cycle. I inspected every plant cautiously before making my wish, then smashed the rest of the dandelion just to be safe.

This continued for a few weeks until I decided that spiders in fact do not come from flowers.

Anon