Gorgeous looking branches, very full, the uniform shape makes it clearly artificial. Lots of lights in the more difficult to find multi color. Putting it together was easy and straightforward, though very time consuming. My tree came with one small section of lights not working, so I had to buy and attach a 50 light strand, difficult to match the color and tone. But given the timing, and the weight of the tree in box, I wasn't able to consider returning it. It's a National Tree Company tree, even though it wasn't branded that way on the site.