A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. It may also be an artificial tree of similar appearance.
Christmas tree decorated with lights, stars, and glass balls
Glade jul by Viggo Johansen (1891), showing a Danish family's Christmas tree
North American family decorating Christmas tree (c. 1970s)
Martin Luther is depicted with his family and friends in front of a Christmas tree on Christmas Eve.
A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of some 37 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere. P
Christmas tree
…A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. It may also be an artificial tree of similar appearance. The custom was developed in Central…
Picea abies botany. 1:young female cone; 2:male cones; 3:mature female cone; 4:pulvinus at leaf base; 5:squarish cross-section of leaf; 6:top of scale; 7:underside of scale; 10:winged seed
Leaf arrangement. Picea abies
The squarish needle has a peg-like base, the pulvinus. Picea abies