4-Leaf Clover and Clover Flower query

[catherine yronwode]

From e-mail, sans querent's name:

> Do clovers have flowers?

Yes.

> Is this the same clover we see clover honey from?

Yes.

> My wife is Russian and I wanted to introduce her to clover for St.
> Patrick's day. She thinks it is the purple or white flower, which I
> think we call wild flowers.

She is correct. There are two closely related species of clovers used as
"shamrocks" for St. Patrick's Day; one is White Clover (with white
flowers) and the other is Red Clover (with purplish-pink flowers). Both
species will occasionally make lucky 4-Leaf Clovers, too. In folk-magic,
the White Clover flowers are used for protection fronmm evil and the Red
Clover flowers are used to attract a lover.

> She actually got pissy about this and has decided to go on a
> miny war path here about this. I can accept being wrong about this,
> but I just don't recall as a kid as I searched for the four leaf
> clover here in North Carolina seeing a flower on the clovers.

Go down on your knees, kiss her fingertips, and make up. You are wrong;
she is right. You probably picked those 4-leaf Clover leaves in
spring-time when they were new and fresh. The flowers bloom later, in
summer, and by then the leaves are a little tattered from insect bites,
so folks don't search for the 4-leaved ones then.

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Good Luck!

catherine yronwode

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[Betty Cunningham]

his wife may be right
-Oxalis is frequently sold as ST Patrick's four leaf clover at florists
and garden centers
Not accurately but it happens....

-Betty Cunningham

[catherine yronwode]

Betty Cunningham wrote:
>
> his wife may be right

Well, she's right either way, but --

> -Oxalis is frequently sold as ST Patrick's four leaf clover at
> florists and garden centers
> Not accurately but it happens....

You bet! And old German postcards for New Year's Lucky Greetings circa
1905 - 1910 often show children with poots of oxalis (you can force it
in winter in a greenhouse). I'd forgotten that. Thanks for the reminder.

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> > From e-mail, sans querent's name:
> > > Do clovers have flowers?
> > Yes.
> > > Is this the same clover we see clover honey from?
> > Yes.
> > > My wife is Russian and I wanted to introduce her to clover for St.
> > > Patrick's day. She thinks it is the purple or white flower, which
> > > I think we call wild flowers.
> > She is correct. There are two closely related species of clovers used as
> > "shamrocks" for St. Patrick's Day; one is White Clover (with white
> > flowers) and the other is Red Clover (with purplish-pink flowers). Both
> > species will occasionally make lucky 4-Leaf Clovers, too. In folk-magic,
> > the White Clover flowers are used for protection fronmm evil and the Red
> > Clover flowers are used to attract a lover.
> >
> > > She actually got pissy about this and has decided to go on a
> > > miny war path here about this. I can accept being wrong about this,
> > > but I just don't recall as a kid as I searched for the four leaf
> > > clover here in North Carolina seeing a flower on the clovers.
> >
> > Go down on your knees, kiss her fingertips, and make up. You are wrong;
> > she is right. You probably picked those 4-leaf Clover leaves in
> > spring-time when they were new and fresh. The flowers bloom later, in
> > summer, and by then the leaves are a little tattered from insect bites,
> > so folks don't search for the 4-leaved ones then.

--
catherine yronwode

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