Repens 'Purpurascens Quadrifolium' and green-leaved T. Example of a five-leaf cloverThere are some cultivars of white clover ( ) which regularly produce more than three leaflets, including purple-leaved T. According to traditional sayings, such clovers bring good luck,1 though it is. These traits can be quite attractive, particularly if combined with others, and can turn clover into an ornamental plant for use in flower beds.There are reports of farms in the US which specialize in four-leaf clovers, producing as many as 10,000 a day (to be sealed in plastic as 'lucky charms') by introducing a ingredient to the plants to encourage the aberration (there are, however, widely available that regularly produce leaves with multiple leaflets – see below). The four-leaf clover is a rare variation of the common three-leaf clover. The results of the study, which also located two other leaf traits in the white-clover genome, were reported in the July/August 2010 edition of, published by the Crop Science Society of America.The other leaf traits, the red fleck mark and red midrib, a herringbone pattern that streaks down the center of each leaflet in a bold red color, were mapped to nearby locations, resolving a century-old question as to whether these leaf traits were controlled by one gene or two separate genes.White clover has many genes that affect leaf color and shape, and the three in the study were very rare.
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