A lucky four-year-old beat odds of 20,000 to one to find a five-leaf clover while searching for plants to use in her mud kitchen.

Rose Lowing-Wilcock, was rummaging around her garden in Dernier Road, Tonbridge, when she came across the incredibly rare plant.

Her mum, 31-year-old Jay Lowing, said: "Rose called out explaining that she'd found this five-leaf clover.

"At first I thought she's just picked up a bunch of clovers together but after taking a closer look I realised it was the real deal.

"I'd never seen one before and she certainly hadn't"

The odds of finding a five-leaf clover are 20,000 to one.

Jay explained that the family planted grass and clover seeds in their garden when they moved in a year ago and replaced the astro-turf there.

Rose and her two-year-old brother, Robert, often mess around in the summer sun looking for clovers to use for 'potions' in their 'mud kitchen'.

It was during one of those play sessions, on July 30, that Rose made her discovery.

Jay said: "Rose wanted to see just how rare her find was and discovered that another boy had made it onto KentOnline with his own five-leaf clover.

"She wanted to show her's off too."

Last June, seven-year-old Theodore Webb also made the rare discovery.

Less than a minute into searching Clowes Wood, between Whitstable and Canterbury, the curious youngster spied one of the rare plants.

The five-leaf clover is a mutation, just like the more common four-leaf clover.

While the former is meant to bring the finder good luck, discovering a five-leaved variant is said to earn a reward of financial gain.

Occasionally, six and seven-leaf clovers are also found.