I strongly prefer real plants to artificial ones, but we needed an artificial plant for our apartment because we are not always there, and this is a very lovely artificial plant.  The leaves are different from other artificial plants because they are not made of as thick a plastic.  They are more like silk or paper, and they look life like from a distance.  There aren’t a lot of artificial plants that are this tall and this reasonably priced.  My only complaint - and it’s a small one - is that it doesn’t really look like a green rubber tree.