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幸运值拉满!你见过63片叶子的“三叶草”吗?


    45-year-old Yoshiharu Watanabe can rightfully consider himself the world’s luckiest man after setting a new Guinness Record by growing a clover with 63 individual leaves.

    What is luckier than a four-leaf clover? Well, a five-leaf clover, of course. By that logic, the more leaves a clover has, the more luck it brings, so Yoshiharu Watanabe may just be the luckiest man alive because he is the first to ever grow a clover with 63 leaves. His amazing story began in 2009 when he started picking up clovers with more than three leaves and planting them in his home garden. All he had to do was cross-pollinate to obtain exceptional specimens with up to 20 leaves. It was at this moment that he started dreaming about setting a new world record, but he never dreamed of doing so with a 63-leaf clover.

    By 2020, Watanabe’s cross-pollination technique had already yielded impressive results. That year, he grew a 49-leaf clover, and the year after that, he came really close to tying the record with a 55-leaf plant.     ▲     — the number of leaves stopped growing.

    “Sometimes the number of leaves can go down, or sometimes you end up with the normal three-leaf clover,” the gardener explained. “We know that genetics are involved in a higher number of leaves, yet we don’t exactly know how it works.”

   But just as he was about to give up hope of ever setting up a new record, in 2023, Watanabe managed to grow a clover plant with no less than 63 individual leaves. “Because the leaves are smaller than the standard clover that you know and love, it’s hard to count the number of leaves. When I counted this record-breaking clover, it took me over an hour,” Watanabe explained. The result, of course, has made him exceedingly happy!

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