# Christmas trees - real or fake?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-trees-real-or-fake/96099>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-trees-real-or-fake/96099 "2001-11-30T09:11:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chas.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Chas.E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chas.E)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-trees-real-or-fake/96099/41 "2001-12-03T02:35:51Z")

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Even the best real trees are fake. Real trees are such a fire hazard, you’re better off getting a flocked tree. The snowy flocking is a fire retardant, and seems to glue everything together so you don’t get such a mess from dropping pine needles. And you can get em in really odd colors. When I was a kid I sold xmas trees and I recall making custom pink, blue, red, and even green flocking. I thought they all looked great except for the dark green. That looked really weird.

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**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2001, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-trees-real-or-fake/96099/42 "2001-12-03T05:42:32Z")

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Always real. Love the smell. Really enjoy the experience of looking at the lights on it at night. Buy it from a place that uses the proceeds for a charitable cause. Not very expensive. The city picks up the tree curbside and recycles it. Sorry to hear people are allergic to Xmas trees!! Happy holidays! 🙂

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