AN ANDOVER schoolboy "didn't feel like it was real" when he found a rare five-leaf clover outside Tesco last weekend.

Nathan Parker-Baker was outside the Tesco Express store on Cricketers Way on Sunday with his four-year-old sister and friend when he found the lucky plant.

The Winton Community Academy pupil, who enjoys looking for clovers when he is out, was waiting for his mum to come out of the store when he struck gold - finding the five-leafed variety among a patch of three-leaf clovers.

"When I am out there normally I look for four-leaf clovers because I had found a few before," the 13-year-old told the Advertiser.

"I was looking and I found this patch, I thought it was a four-leaf clover. When I looked closer it was a five-leaf clover."

"I didn't feel like it was real. I felt really excited."

An exhilarated Nathan rushed to get the other clovers away from the lucky leaf, and held the clover tight all the way home in a chocolate wrapper that his mum had.

Whilst this is the first time that Nathan had found the five-leafed variety, it is not the first time he had got lucky.

"Every now and then I look down and see if I can find any.

"I have found a few four-leaf clovers before. I found one on the way to my old school once, and I managed to find a few more after that."

Whilst most clovers have three leaves, four-leaf clovers are considered lucky, and are featured in the badge of Celtic football club, as well as being painted on old Alfa Romeo cars.

However, clovers can be found with five or even six leafs, whilst the most leaves found on a single clover stem is 56.