Crazy daisy found on lawn

It is a daisy with 14 heads and its finders hope it brings them more luck than the famed Irish symbol of good fortune.

Stunned teenager Robyn Ward picked the plant from her front lawn in Penkridge, Staffordshire. But any hopes of finding further freakish flowers were soon dashed when her dad mowed the lawn.

The 14-year-old, of Chestnut Grove, who attends Wolgarston High School, was playing outside with her eight-year-old sister Phoebe on Saturday afternoon.

She ran inside to show her mother Ruth the rare find who was equally amazed and labelled the daisy "more rare than a four leafed clover".

Mrs Ward, a teaching assistant, added: "Let's hope it is twice as lucky".

The family are planning to keep it in water until it starts to die and then preserve it by pressing it.

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) said the condition was known as fasciation, which can be caused by random genetic disruption, infection, frost action, insects or damage by chance when hoeing or forking.

Robyn said: "I was amazed and shocked because I had never seen anything like it before."

Mrs Ward said: "Unfortunately the lawn was mowed shortly afterwards so if there were any replicas they have gone, but I am sure Robyn will keep an eye out and press this one to keep."

Hannah Talbot, RHS spokeswoman, said: "This is unusual but not rare and the cultivated daisies, which are grown for spring bedding, are quite prone to fasciation."

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