I’ve always been able to find four leaf clovers. When I was a kid, I’d sit in the yard and pick them by the dozen. I also find 5, 6, and once: a 7 leaf clover! (Keep in mind that I lived near Oak Ridge TN, the home of the Atomic Bomb and more polluted ground water than you can shake a stick at!) I found an old Bible I used when I was a kid and opened it up to find dozens of clovers pressed in it. :-)
I was in the yard taking flower and tree pics yesterday and found a patch of clover with tons of four leafs. It usually goes that way: the mutation will be in a patch and you can find four leafs in that patch regularly. Here are most of the fours I found yesterday (I got more after I took the pic):
Now, why doesn’t this luck ever kick in when I buy a lottery ticket?? LOL
Friend of mine has found a bunch of them, even saying to me once in my yard “Look, Ill find you one”. She looked for about 30 seconds, then pulled one up! She has a theory –which i think might be correct, since 1) it makes sense, and 2) she finds them with peculiar regularity. She postulates that they form the 4th leaf in response to stress, i.e, as a spare in case one of the others gets damaged. Therefore, that’s why we (she and I) tend to find them mostly in clover thats edging a sidewalk or pathway; those are the ones that get stepped on a lot.