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Have you a
'four leaved clover' growing on your land?, we will pay €1,000 provided we can
collect it and if we are successful in reproducing it from seed.
Will
the 'real' shamrock, please stand up.
Lesser Trefoil: Trifolium dubium.... Seed available on request.
this plant is the real commercial Shamrock, but not the real real
shamrock. St pat was suppost to have first used wood Sorrel, and since it
rarely produces much seed and is better propagated by root cuttings we
dont have it in our seed stocks, then again there is also water cress,
which in some parts is considered the real shamrock.
Scientific classification:
Shamrocks belong to the subfamily Papilionoideae, family Fabaceae
(formerly Leguminosae).
All fix nitrogen and benefit wildlife and the soil.
Bees like these plants as they provide nectar, Bumble bees are very found
of clovers.
The white clover in your lawn,
is classified as Trifolium repens and the hop clover as Medicago lupulina,
which is Meddick and not clover at all, at all, at all.
The real Shamrock is Trifolium
dubium. Common names:
Lesser Trefoil, sometimes called Lesser Yellow Trefoil, or the Small Hop
Suckling Clover or even the Hop Clover, occasionally called the Least Hop
Clover which is actually Trifolium minus.
So when we say shamrock other say Trifolium dubium = Small hop clover;
Suckling clover; Lesser yellow trefoil; Low hop clover; Yellow clover,
So its called Shamrock. Thats that, or is it........
DBN collected a lesser form of Trifolium Dubium, this smaller seaside
species is what we call the real shamrock.
Black
Meddick Medicago lupulina
is also a Shamrock, so is White clover / trifolium repans, not
found on this web site, nor should white clover be found in your
wildflower meadows as it smothers wildflowers in new meadows. Sometimes Birdsfoot
Trefoil Lotus corniculatus
is used as a Shamrock, and Alexanders
Smyrnium olusatrum (the
Shamrock of the monks in Medieval Ireland.).
Why did Aer
Lingus take the shamrock logos off the tail of all its airplanes?, cos
they saw the shamrock symbol as 'down market'. in the USA the Irish Scene
is considered downmarket.
Yet today Shamrock is seen
as the luckiest plant in the world and is found in every casino in the
galaxy..... thats why we want to find a four leaved clover, for our
customers, and contrary to believe and what the world wide web says as yet
there isn't one,, so get looking, we will pay €10,00 if we can
reproduce it from seed, provided it reproduces from seed. Sorry to be so
crass, but we have customers who require a four leaved clover.
Clover and Shamrock is susceptible to
following diseases : see page http://image.fs.uidaho.edu/vide/famly078.htm#Trifolium
dubium,
Alfalfa mosaic , Bean leaf
roll , Peanut stunt, cucumovirus , Soybean dwarf luteovirus, Rust and smut
fungi are well-defined groups of plant pathogens. These groups generally
are considered to be closely allied with one another and therefore are
frequently discussed together. Both groups of fungi are known to cause
major crop diseases and are well known throughout the world from the
standpoint of their economic significance.
Can Shamrock be exported to
USA? and outside EU?
Yes, As seed and plant and only if disease free,
YES, and No if from a country
with the above diseases, but if isolated in a glasshouse and is disease
free, it can be exported as long as it has a phytosanitary cert.
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