Reading an old forestry book and found out a single mature oak can drop 10,000 acorns in a good year.

Found that stat in a worn-out manual from the 70s in my grandpa's shed. Makes you think about how much we miss just looking at the ground, right?

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victor_perry9020d ago

Crazy part is how few of those actually grow. Most get eaten or rot. That tree's putting all that energy into a numbers game. Basically a biological lottery ticket every single year.

price.logan20d ago

Oh man, this reminds me of a nature doc I watched! They said some oak trees make like ten thousand acorns in a good year, but only one might ever become a full tree. It's wild how much effort that is for basically no sure payoff. Makes our own failed projects feel a bit less bad, honestly. Nature's just out here playing the odds on a huge scale.

wesley76120d ago

Yeah that "biological lottery ticket" line from @victor_perry90 is perfect. Makes me think of all the bad ideas I've had that just rotted on the ground. My success rate is probably worse than that tree's.