All spruced up

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2948-2949, 2013, págs. 68-69
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Fake Christmas trees have been around almost as long as the real thing, but they first began to sell in large numbers in the 1930s, when a toilet-brush manufacturer realized it could make them cheaply by slightly altering its product. Artificial trees are now more popular than the real thing, some surveys suggest, not least because they can last for years and don't drop annoying needles all over the carpet. But tree growers aren't giving up without a fight. They have long been trying to develop more attractive trees to win back customers--and recently, there have been some significant advances. Here, Coghlan discovers how real Christmas trees are fighting back against fake firs.