It's VERY realistic. Looks like a frasier fir. Takes an hour or two to "fluff up" the first time you set it up. Very realistic plastic tips on end of each branch. Cheap/cheesy vinyl filler on inside of each branch. But if you are very careful to spread and bend the tips you can cover the cheap filler so it hardly shows at all. Once we decorate it I don't think the inside vinyl filler stuff will show at all. I recommend bending the cheap filler parts backwards toward the middle of the tree to make them less noticeable and easier to cover with the really high quality tips. Spread each tip (which has many parts/tips) side to side and some up and down. Then walk around whole tree looking for cheap filler stuff and re-bend the good stuff to cover. I was very sad to shift from real frasier fir to plastic, but I was DONE with vacuuming up fallen needles every day. I am amazed at how realistic they have managed to make this tree! The redish brown in the twig/stem parts of the tips really make it realistic. I'm VERY happy with it, despite being pretty anti-fake-tree! I would have paid extra for a few more real tips at the very bottom--I either have to have a few wisps of cheap vinyl showing there or else the bottom limbs are oddly ramrod straight. But, really... They did a GREAT job with this, especially given the reasonable price. 4 photos attached, in different light: indoor light, backlit, sun, and closeup of tips.
