I’ve written about this before, about the Beech and Oak, some kind of need, some kind of want. In places they are together, not just near but intertwined, dancing, sharing root space, mutually grounded. I don’t see this with other pairings and suspect it is not accidental.
Where/when does chance become significantly significant? I teach Statistics and I guess I should know. But how to measure?! If at all.
It is a wonder; perhaps I should just observe and leave it like that; arboreal affairs are outside of my ken.