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Radioactivity?

Hello! I go out walking with my dogs twice daily along a small path on the edge of a small river here nortlh-central Switzerland. On the south side of the path is a field that is used to grow wheat, and on the north side is the river after only a few meters of wildlands and brush. The location is just outside of our village, and there is not much wild life there, although two pairs of mallard ducks and a pair of Eurasian coots are nesting along the river, and there are fish in the river.

The greenery along the path is cut back once a year, usually in the early fall to reduce the danger of fire, and to keep the wild growth from intruding too much into the field. That means that the area along the path is mostly wild grasses, various kinds of clover, wild flowers, etc.

There are some clover patches along the path, and they are growing out now with the warmer weather and longer days. I looked (but I did not “search”) for four-leaf clovers earlier in the spring. That is not so unusual, I think you will agree, but I found it a little unusual that I did not see any. But then, I’m not there to look for four-leaf clovers, I’m there to walk with the dogs!

Then a little over two weeks ago, I started to find four-leaf clovers. I was excited, and brought a few home to show my wife Yvette, and she put them into a little calendar that she keeps to press them. This past week I found more, some the large leaf variety with and without the white chevron, and a few smaller leaf varieties.

Then this past week, I found a five-leaf clover! I have never seen one before, although I assumed that they must exist. I started thinking about why I was finding a five-leaf clover here in Switzerland, and I remembered that this area had some radioactive fallout in the days following the Chernobyl disaster almost exactly 25 years ago (26 April 1986). Enough fallout that the local people were warned not to eat the fruits and vegetables from their own gardens that summer. That started me worrying a little – nothing panicy – but a growing concern about the long-lasting results of radioactive contamination.

Then a few days ago, I found a clover leaf that was obviously a three-leaf model that had suffered some physical damage that made it look almost like a six-leaf clover (left). I picked it just to joke with my wife, but before I got back with it, I found what I thought was another five-leaf clover, and I picked it too. Two five-leaf clovers within one week really activated my concerns. When I got back to the house and showed it to Yvette, we discovered that the “five-leaf clover” was actually a six-leaf clover! I have to say that this scared me!
* * * * *I am not a botanist, and I have no idea whether five- and six-leaf clovers are common in this part of the world or not (note: apparently they are present but not common).

“Yes, the 5-leaf clover is a mutation like the 4-leaf clover that does appear occasionally, but less common than the 4-leaf clover. There are 6, 7 and other multiple leaf clovers that sometimes occur.” [http://www.fourleafclover.com/vshop/facts_about_5-leaf_clovers.html]

I do know that I have never found anything more exciting than the four-leaf versions before in my life, and I have worked and lived on five continents and visited the sixth! Is this the result of radioactive fall-out from Chernobyl? Or from the active nuclear power plants in Switzerland today? I am convinced that it is not from the developing Fukushima disaster (it is too soon), but I do not know what the reason is, and I don’t feel very comfortable with the situation!

May 17th: Further to the situation, I am still finding four-leaf clovers relatively routinely, but I’m not picking them any more – that seems to be superflous at this point. However, I made one exception: I found this giant four-leaf clover this morning, and I just felt that it belonged to the collection!

Craig Hesser

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