plants

When I was younger I either heard someone say or saw on tv that if you speak to plants it's good for them. So when I would walk home from school I would stop in front of my house and talk to our tree(mind you, the tree was probably done growing). I would tell him he was the best tree on the street and that he had the greenest leaves. When fall would come around and the trees would start to lose their leaves, I would root him on. I'd tell him he was the strongest and toughest tree, and not to give up his leaves yet. Like it was some sort of contest. Lucky for me it was a healthy tree or I would have had a lot more disappointment in my childhood. As a red sox fan, I think I'd had enough(until last year!)

conor

When I was younger, we were traveling to visit my grandmother. I saw some low hanging clouds and asked my mother "What's that?" She thought I was looking at the rice fields so she said "Rice." From that day on, I thought rice came from low hanging clouds. I used to wonder how they got the rice in bags when it would fall so freely from the sky. Well, I believed that through all my geography classes and when teachers said rice was grown in fields, I would just say to myself, "Humph, yeah, right. I know it comes from clouds." I thought that for a LONG, LONG time...I dare not say when I learned differently.

Jazi

Long grass with black seeds were really ant hotels, and the seeds were sleeping ants.

angelsheep

If I smelled a dandelion, I would wet the bed.

Anon

In my house we've always had a fig tree in our living room and when i was about 5 i noticed that if you pulled off a leaf or twig, a white liquid came out. After seeing me rip a few leaves off the tree to watch it 'bleed', my mother told me that if i touched the white stuff i would be poisoned and shrivel up like a prune. Seeing that my hands were covered in the stuff i instantly burst into tears, imagining myself slowly drying up into a human raisin and how i wouldnt live to see another day of kindergarden. Thankfully i survived, but i was convinced from then on that if i so much as came in contact with the fig tree again i would surely become a prune!

goofienewfie35

My mom told me one day to never go into a corn field, because when people go in they get lost and never come out!

Michelle

I had just learned a few minutes ago that a nightshade was a plant. I always thought it was a lampshade that was especially bright so you could use it at night.

Anon

I used to think if you eat seeds of a fruit/vegetable and then some dirt, you could grow a tree in your stomach.

Mike

unfortunately, i have no idea whether this is a lie or not... but my mother told me that if i picked dandelions i would wet the bed! (of course, i've never dared to try!)

tony ruscoe

My Granada once gave me a swans feather and told me if I planted it in the garden it would grow into a swan tree. I did and was very disappointed when nothing happened.

Lauren

When I was little my sister and I, and everyone we hung around with, believed that common sumac (the kind with the big red conelike flowers) was something horribly deadly called "Poison Sycamoe." If you touched it, you would die. Imagine my surprise when I read in a nature book that you could brew the red flowers into a lemony flavored tea!

Anon

My son, Matthew was convinced that the machine we used for cutting his nanny's grass was called a "LAWN LOWER"- and who's to say he was wrong!

Chris Wilson

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

My sister used to think that dandelions made you wet the bed. I used to chase her round the garden with them making her cry.

T

When I grew up, thorny bushes were called sticker bushes. So I always imagined Stick-on Stickers on the branches.

Tia

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

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

My dad told me that when he was little, he thought the trees waved back and forth to make the wind blow.

casey

I used to believe that the tall red plants known as 'hot pokers' were actually burning hot and used to be too scared to touch them in case I got burnt!

Lola

My nana used to have a plant in her which for some reason or another, she said would punch us if we got too close to it. For years I believed that if I went near a this kind of plant (a leucodendron) the flower head would jump out and take a swing at me.

Just to be safe I kept a respectable distance!

Anon