Top 16 Christmas Trees + Beach-Themed Christmas Palm (SUPER GALLERY) Edit

If you want to bring in a little warmth to your holiday decor, switch up the traditional evergreen for a palm tree. For an even more tropical feel, add some seashells like the featured beach tree.

In today’s modern day, there are so many alternatives to the iconic Christmas tree. New technology has unleashed a variety of electronic decorations, from LED lights to mini light-up USB trees. And, thanks to the web, shoppers don’t have to settle for any tree that doesn’t suit them perfectly thanks to try-before-you-buy services. In keeping with the rising popularity of ultra luxury, we’ve even got a million dollar tree! And there’s plenty of eco-friendly alternatives too, like recycled bottle trees and one powered by an electric eel!

Check out some of the trees featured on Trend Hunter:

$1 Million Christmas Tree - Diamond Studded Christmas Branches

Kee Jewelry of Singapore has designed this ornamental accessory for Christmas. The $1 million tree is decorated with 21,798 diamonds, weighing 913 carats. It has 3,762 crystal beads, and 456 lights. [More]

NYC Goes Green For Christmas - Rockefeller Tree Now Eco-Friendly (VIDEO)

New Yorkers dreaming of a green Christmas will finally get their fix this year. As of the official lighting ceremony on November 28, the iconic Rockefeller Christmas tree will be more environmentally friendly than ever before. The city is taking a number of energy conserving initiatives including th… [More]

Order Christmas Trees Online - juletrefraskogen.no

Norwegian company, Jule Tre Fra Skogen (Christmas Trees From The Forest), is a new business idea that combines the internet with your seasonal parking lot Christmas Tree salesman. Visitors to the web site can surf through photos of individually-named trees and select one to buy. The company kindly c… [More]

Christmas in Rio – Tree in Rodrigo de Freitas Lake (GALLERY)

The water ways of Rio de Janeiro evoke the holiday spirit in December for the boaters that pass the Christmas tree on Rodrigo de Freitas Lake. The 85 meter tree weighs 530 tons and is lit each year while an explosion of fire works goes off to ring in the season. [More]

Puzzle-Like Christmas Tree - Buro North’s Tree is 80% More Eco Friendly (GALLERY)

This stylish Christmas tree is made of plywood designed by Buro North, Australian graphic designer. According to the designer, this Christmas tree is 80% more environmentally friendly than a traditional spruce and you can use it year after year. DeZeen Magazine noted, “Our ‘Green’ X-Mas tree i… [More]

Electric Eel Powered Christmas Lights - Eel Shocks E-Tree to Life (GALLERY)

The “e” in E-tree stands for two things: eco and electric eel! In order to raise public awareness for the power-producing capabilities of electric eels, a Japanese aquarium Aqua Toto Gifu, built the E-tree.  A conductive copper wire was inserted inside the tank where the slimy zapping sea creature… [More]

$500,000 Solid Gold Tree - Christmas Diamonds, Platinum & Gold For Cancer

At first it seems ostentatious, but in the end, this solid gold tree will do good. Steve Quick Jewelers made the tree from five pounds of 18 k gold, 250 carats of diamonds, topped with an astounding 4.5 carat round diamond in a platinum start. The tree was created with special techniques innovated b… [More]

Tree Donors - Couple Gives 84 Ft Spruce To Rockefeller Center (VIDEO)

A Shelton, CT couple, Joseph and Judy Rivnyak, were happy to see their 84-foot Norway spruce turned into the focal point at the annual Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting. Officials from Rockefeller Center had approached the Rivnyaks last summer, asking if they would be willing to donate the … [More]

5 Recycled Bottle Christmas Trees (GALLERY)

If you hate pine needles all over the floor, and you’re looking for a way to make this your greenest holiday season yet, take a hint from the creator of these festive boozers that decided to create Christmas trees out of beer bottles. Featured in the gallery is a giant Grolsch Christmas tree in Mo… [More]

Wirelessly Powered Christmas Tree - Frontgate LED Tree

The recent craze in wireless electronics has spread to encompass holiday goodies such as this wirelessly powered Christmas tree. The faux Frontgate tree is laden with LED lights and functions in a way similar to WiPower charging and the wireless cell phone, DAPs, medical electronics and other gizmos… [More]

Try-Before-You-Buy Christmas - $1 Fake Tree Trial (GALLERY)

Can’t stand the needles on your floor from a real Christmas tree, but are irked by the tackiness of evidently plastic boughs? The Christmas Tree Company, an online store selling over 52 varieties of faux holiday trees, is giving customers a 30 day trial for only $1. “There are two key factors driv… [More]

USB Christmas Tree - 2007 Edition

We may be turning our computers into the most expensive power strips. Here’s a fiber optic Christmas Tree to plug into your USB port. If you are one of those holiday Grinches who hates to decorate your desk, but still want to avoid the “bah-humbug” label, this is small enough to fit in your desk dra… [More]

Black Christmas Tree

After being the rage in England in 2005, the black Christmas tree has made its way to America. “People have black furniture and that perfect little black dress. So they think, why not have it all match?,” asks Ken Batts, a designer with Star Decorators Wholesale, an Atlanta retailer of the darker si… [More]

Tree of Lights

My hip condo complex has placed a not-so-hip ban on live christmas trees.  This leaves me searching of the next big thing in trees.  Last year, one could buy an upside down Christmas tree, but that’s so 2005 it’s not even funny. Instead, I may have to opt for somthing a little more 2006, like this … [More]

$500 Upside Down Christmas Tree Sold Out

Need more room for your presents?  For just $500 you can get an upside down tree… in February!  They’re all sold out.  snap. “The upside down Christmas tree intended to provide a great display of ornaments. This tree was featured by major print and television media and we have the same tree for le… [More]

USB Christmas Tree

Merry Christmas!  If you find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of work it takes to assemble a tree, maybe the new USB christmas tree is right for you.  Available in Japan, but worth the flight. [More]