Rofe stresses that “trees really don’t like the heat” and adding boiling water to the mix threatens its lifespan. There are only 12 days of Christmas after all.

One of the earliest mass-produced artificial Christmas trees, originally purchased for pennies in 1920, sold for an astonishing £3,400, or $4296.13, at auction on Friday.

"Christmas tree syndrome," as it's called, isn't a reaction to the tree itself, but to "the mold or dust that's found on both real and live trees," Dr. Chelsea Azarcon, a California-based ...

One recent pain point was the economic downturn of 2008, when the total number of real Christmas trees sold nationwide fell 34% from 19.3 million sold in 1998 to 12.8 million in 2009.

It is thought to be bad luck to take down your tree before the 12th day of Christmas, which is Jan. 6. So unless you're one of the rare types, chances are your tree is probably still up.

How Christmas Tree Farms Can Help Wildlife It may seem counterintuitive to support the annual culling of trees, but environmentalists say Christmas tree farms have ecological benefits.