Is 2025 a mast year? 🔎 🌰 A mast year is a year with an overabundance of tree nuts like acorns and beech masts. 🌳 Mast years are thought to be an evolutionary tactic by oaks and other trees which produce a surplus of seeds in one year to try and overwhelm predators, giving their offspring a better chance of survival. ⌛ Producing nuts is costly work and slightly stunts the tree’s growth, so mast years only tend to happen once every few years. 📝 Our research suggests 2025 is the latest mast yea
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