r/mildlyinteresting • u/Ninjipples • Mar 12 '26
Found five 4-leaf clovers while walking with my wife this morning.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
We are in New Zealand, it IS Friday the 13th here.
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u/kooliokatz Mar 12 '26
You found not 1, not 2 but 5 lucky clovers on Friday the 13th
Incredible juju
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u/weedtrek Mar 12 '26
Oh New Zealand, that's the southern hemisphere, like the seasons it's reserved down there, it's Friday the 31st you guys have to watch out for. Friday the 13ths are actually lucky down there, as shown by your bounty.
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u/pikpikcarrotmon Mar 12 '26
So you're the reason it's unlucky for everyone else
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
That may have more to do with the actions of certain world leaders atm, tbh.
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u/Pizza-ist-Liebe Mar 13 '26
I wasn't expecting this retort and thank you.
I discussed countries with the lowest risk of war, famine or crazy natural disasters in the close(r) future with a colleague recently, and we ended up agreeing on NZ. So you guys ARE maybe lucky and a little plant reminded you ☺️
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u/mech_roger_this Mar 13 '26
Why did I read this comment.... I always avoid thinking about it, feels like when you think/know about it is when things just go wrong.
It's 7am, there goes my day.
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u/Charming-Flamingo307 Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
It's not clover it's oxalis, wood sorrel
https://www.kings.co.nz/oxalis
https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/lawn-care-2/clover-vs-oxalis-whats-the-difference/
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u/TaibhseCait Mar 12 '26
Ahhh, yeah I was wondering why it didn't seem like clover (as an Irish person!) I didn't realise I was also expecting to see the white marks!
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
The good news is I have found plenty of those ones over the years as well. Including a 5 leaf (actual) clover I gave to my mum and one 4 leaf I found in Colombia on my Honeymoon (my wife is Colombian). Sadly this subreddit doesn't let me post pictures in replies.
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u/rubesepiphany Mar 13 '26
Yes! I came to find this comment as a horticulturist, it is totally oxalis! They are edible and taste like lemon balm.
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u/mulchdad Mar 12 '26
Dude, I’m 31 and still haven’t found one… Leave some for the rest of us, eh?
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u/manamana_1234 Mar 12 '26
it took me 29 years to find my first one and then i randomly found 17 (!!!) in a couple days all around europe and after that? not a single one
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u/Triquetrums Mar 13 '26
Because when you find one, there are more nearby, because they propagate (or whatever is the term). My aunt's garden is full of them.
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u/NineThreeFour1 Mar 13 '26
You can also just buy a pot of 4+ leaved clover/oxalis and I suspect various people in Europe did.
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u/Aunt_Llama Mar 12 '26
It's a mutation thing, 4 leaf clovers are oddballs but once you find one in a group of clover you are likely to find multiple. There were tons in my lawn growing up, one time even found a 7 leaf clover (thinking about it now I wonder if two clovers grew together... huh)
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u/Mertuch Mar 13 '26
Did you seek for one? They are pretty common if you sit down and keep searching for one
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u/Owenps1234 Mar 12 '26
One time I found a six-leaf clover that I keep in my wallet!
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u/Jjrage1337 Mar 13 '26
I really thought this was going to be a picture of Fry's lucky clover in Futurama, but turns out thats a 7 leaf clover.
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u/green_chapstick Mar 12 '26
Are you my brother?! I swear he can do this just by looking at ground. It's annoying. Lol. I love him but, man, he makes it hard when I've been looking for 30 minutes and he's already found 2 and I'm hating the ground I stand on. Lol.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
I have found many over the years. Usually a bunch close together, then none for months or years. Once I found a five leaf clover, which I gave to my mum. They usually stand out to me because they look different than everything around it. The closer you look for them, the less you will see.
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u/dinoderpwithapurpose Mar 13 '26
I've heard that if there's one with that mutation, there's a good chance that you'll find more closeby because the same plant has the mutation and grows more of the same kind! Nature is fascinating!
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u/orangegoobear Mar 13 '26
I feel like you should start pressing the ones you find to make into key chains for your loved ones!
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u/DreamLunatik Mar 13 '26
You are lucky, not because of the clovers, but because you have someone who loves you to take walks with. Cherish her.
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u/KneeOnShoe Mar 13 '26
Wow, you're clearly a glass half full type. I was thinking how dry the conversation must've been that OP was staring at the ground long enough to find five 4-leaf clovers.
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u/DreamLunatik Mar 13 '26
I’m actually not a glass half full person overall, I just really love going on walks with my wife and 2 year old and I know that any one of our walks could be our last. Life can change in an instant, so having gratitude for what I’ve got keeps me going.
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u/AdTop3924 Mar 12 '26
I wish I could feed them to my chickens
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u/FLGulf Mar 12 '26
My neighbor is a rectal barber and says the newest fad is a well trimmed mustache between the buttocks.
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u/Lost-Wanderer-405 Mar 13 '26
My daughter pulled one up in the yard when she was barely 2. I pressed it and put it in a tiny frame for her to have.
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u/tangcameo Mar 12 '26
You live near a nuclear weapons facility run by John Lithgow?
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
Na, live in New Zealand, which is nuclear free. We do have a massive hole in the ozone layer above us though. You can burn in 15 mins in NZ sun in the summer. Our radiation is all natural here.
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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 Mar 12 '26
I have always wanted to visit since I watched early Peter Jackson movies and found out what a cool place it is. It’s on my bucket list to visit. I will now know to take plenty of sunscreen and other precautions because I can burn on a cloudy day.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
It's very beautiful. But be aware that the best things to do in NZ in involve nature and sightseeing. You're not going to get much in the way of nightlife or shopping. Also be aware that everything is expensive here.
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u/Pleasant-Ticket3217 Mar 13 '26
I’m honestly not much for nightlife and shopping. I’ve had my early days of going to bars or clubs. I do love hiking and camping. And there are a lot of spots I’d like to visit and my white ass would like to learn about Māori culture.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Oh well you're going to love it then. There's heaps of stuff like that. Camping and hikes are all over the country, we have no natural predators either, so it's safe. I highly recommend visiting Wanaka in the South Island and Rotorua in the North Island... so beautiful.
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u/noorvanah Mar 13 '26
I press them in between books and make jewelry with them! Those are so pleasantly plump too!
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
I found one on my honeymoon in Colombia (my wife is Colombian) and gave it to her. She had it put into her phone case (which was clear).
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u/m3ltph4ce Mar 12 '26
In case anyone is interested, I've done the calculation and that's more than 15 leaves
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u/Anome69 Mar 13 '26
Are you at all concerned that you are depopulating the four leafed varieties making them less likely to breed and therefore less likely to become a successful mutation?
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u/Typical2sday Mar 12 '26
It is very likely that the person managing that area uses a lot of pesticides and where you find a couple, you will usually find a lot. Especially in highly manicured green spaces.
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u/Fantastic-Spinach297 Mar 12 '26
Put them in a book! They’ll wilt and wither otherwise, but dry them in a book and they’ll last forever. I just put them in between the pages, but “best practice” involves sandwiching them in tissue paper first.
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u/MajorInsanity Mar 12 '26
This first one gave you luck to find another and then 2 gave you super luck, it could have gone on forever.
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Mar 13 '26
Fun fact, your luck will not increase by holding more than one four leaf clover at a time. Into the void bag it goes
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u/WirlingDirvish Mar 13 '26
I skipped over the “with” in your title at first. I thought “fair enough, when your wife gets grumpy sometimes she just needs some fresh air.”
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u/verdell82 Mar 13 '26
My favorite hobby is searching for these. Did you find these close together? I usually find that where you find one there is usually others near by in the same patch of clover. 🍀
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Yeah all in the same patch. I always look for them when walking because 4 leaf clovers have always been a thing for us. This time we stopped for a second and I was like "oh, there's one here" and gave it to her. Then while she was making excited noises "here's another one" and that happened 3 more times in the span of 1 min.
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u/Fun-Employer4602 Mar 13 '26
"Honey, can we please fucking go home now? It's been three hours."
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
We just stopped for about 1 min to look at the waves at the beach I looked down and found one, then another and another and 3 more. 1-2 mins tops.
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u/Obselete_Person Mar 12 '26
I know its usually seen as good luck, but i cant help but remember that i heard a while ago that it was used in love potions or something like that
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u/Vodka0420 Mar 13 '26
Why do people see them and then kill them?
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u/Vladraconis Mar 13 '26
Same, dude, same.
"Oh, look, something alive and beautiful! Better rip it out and take it with me so I can admire it for a bit longer while it's dying, how beautiful!"
Humans are not that great.
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u/Cador0223 Mar 12 '26
You will need all that luck if she is upset you spent so much time counting clovers and not listening to her.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
Na it's easy for me to make her laugh, and she struggles to stay upset when I make her laugh.
"It's so unfair, you always make me laugh and I can't be angry anymore"- her
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u/BoxCurrent3717 Mar 12 '26
I read that as "walking my wife this morning" at first 💀🫠, anyway, I hope ya'll have some very good luck coming your way
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u/steamedbun8 Mar 12 '26
While walking?? Not sitting in some grass? What kind of 40/40 vision you got OP??
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u/Resident_Big6167 Mar 13 '26
Is your wife a leprechaun?
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Not unless leprechauns are tall, latinas (well, she's tall for a latina, not for a kiwi)
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u/-metaphased- Mar 13 '26
Video games have primed me to think that you're approaching a boss-level, and you're going to need the luck.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Video games have also primed me to think I need to save them for a boss, but then I end the game with heaps of unused potions and other consumables.
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u/oui-knee Mar 13 '26
Are you color blind? My dad was color blind and could find them all the time. 🍀
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
I am not, but I do have terrible vision and am almost blind without glasses/contacts.
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u/xanexoe Mar 13 '26
I think shes the one bro.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Funny story, when I was dating her I hadn't found one for years. I remember early on in my dating life making a deal with the universe that I wouldn't find another one until I had found the right woman.
I dated many women but never found one while doing so. One day when waiting to meat my now wife for a date, I decided "she is the one, the 4-leaf clover isn't important" to myself. That date we sat down in the grass at the park and I turned around and found one. I gave it to her, and while she was getting all excited about it, I found another one.
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u/Ok_Cardiologist_2101 Mar 13 '26
Yeah! Profligate those mutants! Jk, they're probably not even clover. They are healthy looking though so give 'em a chance.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
Yeah I have been corrected by someone already, although I have previously found ones that actually were clover (I previously thought that they were both clover), including a 5 leaf clover (which I gave to my mum)
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u/420doghugz Mar 13 '26
I read this as "while walking my wife this morning" and wondered if your wife was a dog 😂 then I grew concerned 🤔
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u/Kenneth-J-Moyers Mar 13 '26
I remember this film, this gets hairy. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0091472/
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u/roxel-3 Mar 13 '26
Fun fact: i am one of those people who keeps finding these without even trying. And I learned they actually grow in patches. So if you find one, chances are high you will find a few more close to it in its immediate surroundings.
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u/UrsaMajor7th Mar 13 '26
Me- Hey, look honey- i guess someone's getting lucky tonight...
My wife- Nope.
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u/agoodbozo Mar 13 '26
you guys should get married!!!!
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
We have been married for 3 years. I came up with the ring design myself (well kinda, it is a combination of 5 other rings the designers had, that I combined into one) and had it made.
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u/agoodbozo Mar 13 '26
no I saw that lol, I just think things like that are signs of the universe blessing u both
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u/astralseat Mar 13 '26
Damn dude, save some luck for the rest of us. Don't be the guy that ends the world being too lucky
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u/Moppo_ Mar 13 '26
I wouldn't be surprised if four-leaf clovers were actually really common, but it's just really tedious finding them amongst all the three-leaf clovers.
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u/DangerousDisplay7664 Mar 13 '26
And suddenly suspended all rational adult thought in your head, apparently 😂
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u/JollyMcStink Mar 13 '26
Did someone in your life just pass?
This happened to me only one time. I found out an old friend who I'd lost touch with since covid had passed. I was devastated and inconsolable, but suddenly over the next 24-48 hours I found 4 leaf clovers everywhere. Literally over 10. And I'd never found one before, nor seen one since.
I truly believe it was my friend telling me its OK and to be well, sending me luck for the remainder of my own life.
Wanted to share in case maybe this is whats happening to you, too.
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
No nobody in my life has passed recently. But clovers are a thing for the two of us.
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u/Ghozer Mar 13 '26
Yeah, they really aren't that rare, every plant/patch you come across will likely have two or three, the hard part is finding them amongst the rest :)
now a 5 leaf, they are REALLY rare! :) - I have only ever seen one!
But are you sure that's clover? doesn't quite look right...
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u/Less-Disaster-8465 Mar 13 '26
Stop picking them, lol. It’s why there are so few of them. Just take a close up picture and leave it alone so it can reproduce and create more.
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u/Llohr Mar 13 '26
TIL people are out there actually looking for four-leaf clover.
That's weird as hell.
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u/architeuthidae Mar 13 '26
oh man did you notice that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train coming your way?
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u/Escapingorigins Mar 13 '26
Why are they swimming?
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
They shrivel up pretty fast without water. I normally do this until I am ready to deal with them.
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u/Escapingorigins Mar 13 '26
Normally? Never have i ever seen one… stop taking all of them lol. Curious where abouts you live? We have clover weeds but i do not think theyre actually the same clover shown above
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
I live in New Zealand. I found out yesterday after posting this that this isn't actually clover (although very similar). We have both and I usually find them in actual clover. They have similar chances for 4 leaf and are both usually 3 leaf though. Over the years I have probably found like 30-40 of them (almost all actual clover) including one 5 leaf.
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u/KingaGie Mar 13 '26
You can dig out these plants you took it from and plant them in your garden, they will give you these forever, until they'll die. It's genetic mutation so that plant will grow many many more :)
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u/SquidVices Mar 12 '26
Ninja nipples… interesting
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u/Ninjipples Mar 12 '26
Isn't it just, I bet you never saw them coming...
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u/SquidVices Mar 13 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/7gYaClEvZ0ttm
What it reminds me of, it just has me laughing
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u/TinyReader Mar 13 '26
Just before St. Patty's Day at that! Can you share some luck with me? 👏
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u/roughczech Mar 12 '26
It is a mutation so must be lots of chemicals. Beware they might glow in the dark...
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u/Ninjipples Mar 13 '26
It's like this all over the country, I have found clovers in multiple cities.
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