When the summer solstice came by this year, there was an article in the Guardian about how beech trees sense the heat at this time in order to calculate how much of an effort to put into producing fruit. Apparently the trees wait until precisely June 21st to “open a temperature-sensing window” for about the month following, to asses what kind of a summer will transpire: If it’s hot, they prepare for lots of nuts, if cooler, not so much. One more example of the brilliance of evolutionary adaptation. Love this.
