Looks real until you get up close. Definitely needs a decorative pot or basket to cover the plastic base it comes with but I expected that. Only reason I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 5 is because it came broken, snapped at the base of the tree. Thankfully it was a clean break and I was able to use Gorilla glue to put it back together but it wasn’t packaged well at all so I imagine I’m not the first person this has happened to. Overall worth the purchasewhat I was expecting from the original pictures.