Gone are the days when artificial Christmas trees meant obvious plastic needles and flimsy branches. Today’s faux firs rival their natural counterparts in both beauty and convenience ...

Or so I thought, until I happened across a flowering silk tree (Albizia julibrissin). Its pale pink and white flowers with prominent stamens resemble fine silk threads. They not only look ...

Narrator: The quest for the perfect tree is a rite of the holiday season, and ever since the late 19th century, people have been trying to come up with an artificial version. By the 1960s ...

My first culinary encounter with sembal dodde – which is what the buds of Bombax ceiba, or silk cotton tree, are called in Khadi Boli spoken in Saharanpur – was one of wonder. It is not so ...

You need to use an artificial tree for a decade to make it as green as a real tree Plastic is made mostly from petrol, so that has a huge carbon impact, says Dr Caplat. Then there's transportation ...

If you want a beautiful Christmas tree without the struggles that come with a real tree (constant sweeping, anyone?), try one of these artificial designs. It’s not really Christmas until the ...