plants

I used to believe that pussywillows were pieces of my cat stuck to a tree, and that if you played with your belly button that your bum would fall off.

Jennifer Stephens

My 3 year old son (who will be 4 in July)calls bushes "baby trees". :-)

T.K.P.

When i was a kid, i used to believe that the tress waving their branches was what caused the wind, because it was never windy unless the trees were waving their branches :)

Cathal in Ireland

After I had learned that plants were living things, I came to the conclusion that they could think! I remember looking at a tree and wondering what it could possibly be thinking about. I also wondered how plants felt about staying still ALL THE TIME.

Anon

My mum told me that if i picked dandilions that i wld wet the bed. i believed her up until i was 14 when i told my younger sister not to do it. My mum interupted and said not tell her such nonsense, i was not amused!!!

Anon

As a child, I was frequently on trips with my family to the Appalachian mountains, and that was the one place where I'd then seen Rhododendrons, which grow in abundance there. But we went on very few hiking trails, and what hiking we did do was very short, because my father had a bad knee. So most of our observatins were from or near roads, and all rhododendrons that I clearly saw were along or near roads. So I thought that was the only place they grew, and that the "rhod-" part of their name came from their occurrence alongside roads.

Bobby boy

When I was about 5 and my cousin was about 6, my grandpa had convinced us that the hollow tree near our house was actually the secret entrance to a leprechaun's hideout. My cousin and I would spend hours near the tree opening looking for a leprechaun passing through.

Mae

When I was little, I used to believe that the blooms of the wysteria plant were bundles of grapes.

Anon

the curly parts of grape vines were magical

Holly

I used to think plants ate the kind of food people do, like hamburgers.

Cindy

I used to believe that the cardboard barriers that surround newly gowing trees were graves of people that had died in that field/platation and so therefor that ground was evil... i was so young lol

Lucie

I used to believe that trees were not alive, so sometimes my brother and I would go outside with his little plastic tool set and chip bark off of the ones in our front yard. We always got tired of playing construction workers with the toy wood block that never even changed when we hammered it, so we liked to pretend that we were doing "important work" on the trees.

When I learned in school that trees were actually alive, I felt so bad about hurting ours! I figured it must have been like were were chipping off their skin and they probably hated us now. When I got home, I hugged our trees and apologized to them. Needless to say, we never "worked" on the trees again.

BandGeek

I used to believe that a certain type of palm tree was an over grown pinapple

Hannah

When I was in 4th grade one of my friends told me that if you touch this certain weed that had yellow berries on it and then let the sun hit you hand you would die. On day I touched the weed and panicked for days that I was going to die if I let the sun tough my hand for to long!

JME

I thought that plants with flowers were girl plants, and plants without flowers were boy plants.

Shannon

When I was a kid, I used to think that corsages and boutonnieres were edible because you had to put them in the fridge and they looked like cake flowers.

Sarah Carnes

I used to believe that a lemon grows up to be sweet lime and that a donkey grows up to be a horse......weird but true.

jyoti

I used to believe that popcorn kernals were the seeds of popcorn trees. I tried to plant them once.

Anon

My mum told me that if I picked dandelions that I would wet my knickers.

Rachael

I used to believe that all things people eat or use (money and cars) all came from trees or plants i never realized otherwise until i was about 6 years old. I found this out by asking my mom how a tree could hold a car!! I alos figured it out by asking my dad why he went to work if he could just get money off a tree.

Anon