Once you get this plant free of all packaging (helpful to have two people), fluff out the leaves, and replace all the leaves that have fallen off, it is really quite an attractive and life-like fiddle leaf fig tree (at least from a few feet away). The base is concrete in a plastic pot and my pot was broken, but I really wanted to put it in a more decorative pot anyway, so that was OK. The plant is tall enough to fill in a corner behind my reading chair quite nicely.