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Old 18-05-2013, 06:52 PM
kay kay is offline
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I grew some alpine strawberries that were described as "yellow". They weren't. They were the colour of unripe strawberries. It was ages before I actually got to eat any, as I kept mistaking them for unripe red ones.
And while we're on the subject of colour mistakes - black potatoes was another one - almost indistinguishable from soil.
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