This is a great product and looks wonderful - it will be around forever. Because it was shipped in a box of approximately the same size as the product, it arrived mostly square. It takes some work to make it appear like the picture. Also not nowhere does the word "artificial" appear in the description even though you can assume from the price that it is artificial. Real mistletoe of the same size costs over the double this price, tipping you off to the notion that it is artificial.