What is Clover?

Clover is a small, perennial plant called Trifolium repens or White Clover that usually has three leaves on each stem. It is commonly known as White Clover or Dutch White Clover. It produces white flowers and the leaflets are very narrow oval to oval, sometimes may even from a into a heart shape.  The leaflets have tiny teeth on the edges and have a mixture of reddish brown and white marking at the centre.   These perennial plants are native of Europe.

Four Leaf Clover

A clover that has four leaves instead of 3 leaves is called four-leaf clover.  Four-leaf clover is believed to be a good luck charm leaf as the clover is a plant that normally grows only 3 leaves. The chance of finding a four-leaf clover amounts to approximately 1/100000, thus, if a four-leaf clover is found, it s believed that you are blessed with good luck. Representing good luck in our love, health, honour and wealth of our life, the good luck clover is an ideal, unique and meaningful gift for every one.

The fourth leaf is usually SMALLER than the other three leaves.  There are 100,000 three-leaf clovers for every piece of A TRUE FOUR-LEAF CLOVER...
Each leaf symbolizes of:

Currently, you may find four-leaf clover, which are NOT REAL. There are actually Marsilea Quadrifolia (Water Clover), Oxalis Deppei(False Shamrock), and Oxalis Stricta (Yellow Wood Sorrel) that produce all four leaves only.

History of Clover 

The four-leaf clover is a globally accepted sign of good luck in time of immemorial. Legend has it,
that Eve the 2nd creation of God, brought along a four-leaf clover when she left the Garden of
Eden. This was because Eve believed that the four-leaf clover was a symbol of Good Luck as it
was rare in the Garden of Eve.

In Ireland, the four-leaf clover was rated on the same level as the shamrock, the plant that
the snakes are afraid of. A popular saying, “He’s in clover”, means a person is in good luck.

In Irish belief, the Shamrock or Three Leaf Clover plays an important role for the Holy Trinity
– One leaf for The Father, One Leaf for the Son and One Leaf for The Holy Spirit. The forth
leaf of the  represents God’s Grace. The shamrock is also the national symbol of Ireland.

Old folks defined that the four leaflets of the four-leaf clover have a close resemblance with the
cross in view to the origin of the four-leaf clover as good luck charm. At that time, the cross was
called the Solar or Sun cross, which nowadays people call as “Compass”. The four leaflets of the
clover became known as North, South, East, and West.

In Caesar’s writing, from 200 B.C., Sun God Druid believed that four-leaf clover could evade magic and evils. The priests, his fellow worshippers were keen to believe this.

In 1620, Sir John Melton quotes ‘ If a man walking in the fields find any four leaf clover, he shall
presently find some good things. White Clover was held in high esteem by the early Celts of Wales as a charm against evil spirits. (Courtesy Of Clover Science & Technology N.C.Taylor 1985).

Napoleon, hesitant to believe this folk tale, coming across a four-leaf clover right at the front-feet
of his horse, out of curiosity, bent down. At that time a bullet crossing right over him,
he survived (Believe it or not).