Mast (botany) Mast seeding is defined as the highly variable production of fruit by a population. These intermittent pulses of food resources drive ecosystem-level functions and forest dynamics. The difference between a mast seeding year and a non-mast seeding year can be thousands of acorns, hickory nuts, beech nuts, etc. Mast seeding dominantly occurs in wind-pollinated tree species, but has also been observed in grasses and Dipterocarps. Masting, in the strict sense of the term, occurs only in monocarpic (or semelparous) species, whose members reproduce only once during their lifetime, then die. Hypothesis for the evolution of mast seeding can broadly be
The Weeping Beech for a ten-foot section that would remain in the park as a memorial, would be given to artists to use for sculptures and benches along a heritage trail in downtown Flushing. A teacher at Flushing High school, Margaret L. Carman, thought the Idea of a trail thru Murray Hill linking 300 years of Queens history would be a good way to experience it firsthand, the Park entrance at Bowne st has a green named after her in honor of that vision. The Weeping Beech The Weeping Beech Tree of Flushing is the mother of all European Weeping Beeches in the