Blog #7: The Clover

            It is green. The purest form of the color. I guess you’d predict that of something made in nature. It doesn’t have any psychedelic, eyes blare wide, kind of colors. Just green. One that is simply made of blue and yellow. Nothing else. It is the kind of green one would make in elementary art class. Squirting a blob of blue and then a blob of yellow, and with a paint brush swirling it round and round until, there it was, a whole new color and yet utterly simple. If it’s real, then the leaves have a faded white arrow on each leaf. When the leaves are put together the white marks form different shapes, circles, diamonds. Each clover has either three, four, sometimes even five leaves, all depending on the cosmos. After every 10,000 clovers pops out of the ground, a recessive gene comes forward giving the next clover its fourth leaf. Trifolium Repens is the name. Don’t mistake it for its clover cousins.  Oxalis Deppei has a deep purple center, marsilea quadrifolia is a solid green and only grows in groups of fours, while polycarpa are a lime green and also only grows in groups of fours. The Trifolium Repens is the only true four leaf clover.