30-35 million: Number of Christmas trees sold in the U.S. each year

175,000: Estimated number sold online or by catalogue

500,000: Number of acres in the U.S. for growing trees

18: Number of people provided daily oxygen requirements from one acre of trees

7: Average number of years it takes to grow a tree

Source: christmastree.org


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