Funny news Photo Credit: Facebook A woman recently found that the plant that she had been watering for about two years was actually made of plastic.

A plant owner was devastated when she decided to re-pot her "beautiful succulent" plant after about two years of taking care of it. The plant was not real!

Caelie Wilkes took to Facebook to share how she was "proud" of her plant. " It was full, beautiful coloring, just an over all perfect plant," she said.

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She had put it up in the kitchen window. She was so possessive about the plant that she would not let anybody else water the plant. "I had a watering plan for it, if someone else tried to water my succulent I would get so defensive because I just wanted to keep good care of it. I absolutely loved my succulent.," she wrote.

Recently, Wilkes thought of changing the pot of the plant. "I found the cutest vase, that suited it perfectly," she said.

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When she pulled the plant out of its plastic container, she realised that something else was also made of plastic. The plant was fake.

"I go to pull it from the original plastic container it was purchased with to learn this plant was FAKE. I put so much love into this plant! I washed it’s leaves. Tried my hardest to keep it looking it’s best, and it’s completely plastic!" Wilkes added.

"How did I not know this. I pull it from the container it’s sitting on Styrofoam with sand glued to the top! I feel like these last two years have been a lie," she said.

The post has gone viral, garnering over 5,300 likes. The comments section revealed that this was not the first time that plastic plants fooled people.

One user said, "I bought a cactus with this super cute flower on top. Too me 2 or 3 weeks of marveling at home long that single bloom was lasting to realize it was a fake flower!!! I felt so tricked. They had seriously hot glued a fake flower to the top of a live plant!"

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Another wrote, "This happened to me too..a friend was leaving the country and said did I want her favourite plant..she didn't tell me it was plastic..it looked so real..obviously realized when it looked exactly the same after a couple of months lol."

"Now that you practiced two years, it's time to get a real one and show the world you can do it!" a user commented.