I was extremely disappointed in this tree.  I wish that I had returned it, but at the time - it was very close to Christmas - so I thought that I'd go ahead and try it out - the size of the tree, apparently was measured from the bottom of the base to the very tip-top of the center "limb" (where your angel topper would be placed) - and that top "limb" was approximately 2 feet tall ... making it very flimsy - needing to fold it at least in half in order to support a "topper" .  All in all the main part of the tree itself was only about two feet!  A very tiny tree - it was a JOKE!