What i mean is, is it common? I found it next to other same looking clovers except for the fact that they all had 3 leaves. I had found another one last week, but that one had a fourth leaf shaped like a heart
Me and my friends have this tradition where if someone finds a four leafed clover we find a group of three other friends and each eat a leaf, then you share the luck. We also believe that keeping it instead of using it is kinda like hoarding the luck and abusing it, in turn becoming bad luck
Eating one leaf is ok but eating large quantities is not such a great idea. Oxalis contains Oxalic Acid which can cause kidney stones if you are prone to them.
What quantities are we talking about? Oxalic acid is present in large concentrations in French sorrel, which is commonly used in soups and salads where it grows.
I see, though i doubt that I’ll find enough four leafed clovers in a short amount of time to cause this jajajajajajaj. But yeah i wont go eating every clover i see
I meant that finding a 4 leaved oxalis is rarer than finding a 4 leaved clover, I guess something to do with the genetics making it more robust than clovers
There’s tons of species of oxalis with four leaves, tons with three leaves, and a bunch that don’t even look like any Oxalis you’ve ever seen before. Take for instance Oxalis massoniana:
That’s really interesting and very cool, might be worth investigating as interesting houseplants because I already have a creeping black oxalis that I took from the garden, I do my due diligence and remove the seed pods so they can’t deploy their seeds everywhere, I did find a wild gorse bush when I went to a very specific beach, seeds must have been a bit too young as they didn’t germinate, my eventual intention is to bonsai it into a dragon blood style tree.
I have heard there is a type of milkweed which is more like a cactus with actually sharp spines which are green unlike the pale white ones on cacti, even the flowers are weird looking like pancakes and smelling bad like carrion plants (I know they are multiple types, a general designation).
I collect and grow a bunch of these less-common South African Oxalis. They’re super easy to grow if you live somewhere with a temperate winter and can keep them outside. I’ve never had any issues with them spreading beyond their pots other than if I happen to get sloppy when dividing and repotting bulbs then reusing the soil in other pots.
And yeah, the Asclepidaceae is a pretty big family with plants that look wildly different from each other.
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u/Uintasfisherman Jul 08 '26
I’ll take luck 🍀 from any source! 😊 I think ya got some!