plants

well...when i was less then 10 i used to fight with bushes.it was a kind of game...plants were my enemies and i used to cut them with a stick.bigger were liders and my whorse opponents...sometimes flowers, and young trees...i was a cruel warrior...;0

R'dian

When my cousin was younger, we taught her to be polite and wave and say hi to people that said hi to her. So when she looked out the window and saw trees swaying.. she waved at them because she thought they were waving at her!

Jna (UK, 16)

I have a very good memory.
I hardly ever put things that weren't supposed to be eaten in my mouth. My mum agrees with this. But once i ate some kind of 'succulent' plant, and threw up for three days straight. I remember still why i did it, and only when i told my mum why i did it about 4 years ago (when i was 14) did i realise how weird my reason was. I was pretending these round leaves were money.

that ain't money!

Once when I was a kid, I planted some apple seeds, hoping to grow apples. I didn't know then that apples grow on trees. What I sort of expected to come up from each seed was a vertical stem about one or two feet high, topped off by a single apple. I envisioned no leaves on such a plant. Once it produced its single apple on top, it was finished growing and nothing more would ever become of that plant, so I thought.

Bobby

One day we were driving and we smelled something aweful. My parents told me it was a "chicken plant." I missunderstood and whenever something stunk...I figured a "chicken plant" was growing near. I found out about 4yrs. later that it was a chicken plant where they proscess chickens. I was so embarrassed. I had told all of my friends about the stinky "chicken plant!"

Lauren

i Used to belive that if roses were yellow it ment that someone had peeded on them when the were growing, and if they were red it ment they grew up nomarly

jasmine

When we used to go on holiday, my mum would point out the "wild flowers" in the countryside as we drove past. Assuming them to have large teeth like "wild" animals, I would lower in my seat a little and lock the door.

John C

when i was about 7 or 8 years old, i accidentally swallowed the seed of a calamansi fruit (really really small round version of the lime fruit, except a notch sweeter). i told my guardian about it and she said that i have to get it out of my body immediately because a calamansi plant will grow inside my body overnight. it took my mom about a couple of hours or so to reassure little ol' me that that wasn't gonna happen.

nix

I used to think that cattails (you know.. they grow on the riverbanks, etc) tasted like corndogs.

I never ate one, though. Promise.

Anon

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

When i was little i used to believe that mother nature was a rich woman who went around the world planting seeds to make babies!

Polly Dolly

*old grandad voice* when i was young my dad showed me the Dr who shows. very entertaining till one day my mum suggested we go down the garden to get in the "garlics". the site of a 5 year old doin the "exterminate" stil brings tears to her eyes

gaz

When i was little, my grandparents had a weeping willow tree in their yard. And i always asked them why it was called a weeping willow . And they told me that weeping ment crying. So when i was allowed to go outside and play i would always run up to the tree and hug it and say don't cry be happy. My grandparents always were confused why i did it until i told them one day when i was 14. I relized it wasn't crying.

Sarah

When I was little I thought the white stuff inside dandelion stems was milk and tried to eat a whole garden full of them. I was quite poorly that evening

Sapphire

my older sister once told me that sea weed was the hair of dead people i always made a point of not touching it and hated going in the sea coz i thought dead people brushed against my legs

tango

I always used to think that trees made the wind (well it would make sense wouldn't it!)

Han

When I was about 8, I was climbing in a maple tree in the yard. Then I saw that some of the leaves had red bumps on them. I thought that the disease could be contaigous from trees to people. I was so scared that I jumped out of the tree without looking down.

Greta

I used to believe that mushrooms in the grass grew if it was sunny and rained at the same time.

Ryan