To make branches that appear snow-tipped ... gave us the perfect fake fir. Today's faux firs can be several stories tall. These big, artificial trees start with a steel skeleton.

Cheaper artificial trees use bristle-like branches and fewer of them ... It was easily the most convincing fake tree I put together, and it truly looks gorgeous fully decorated and lit.

Trees in nature follow a “self-similar” branching pattern called a fractal, in which the same structures repeat at smaller and smaller scales from the trunk to the branch tip. In the new study ...

In 1953, the Christmas motif is represented with a modest spruce branch decorating the masthead ... Postcard from 1948, photo: National Library / Polona.pl A Christmas tree, regardless if fake or real ...