Beads of natural stone threaded onto wire, the wire twisted into branches, the whole thing set into a base. It is sold under several names, crystal tree, gemstone tree, stone tree, healing crystal tree and tree of life, and they all mean the same object. The appeal is optical and it is simple. Cut stone catches light in a way almost nothing else on a shelf does, and because the stone is natural, no two trees are alike.
Ours are twelve inches tall and carry around three hundred beads. Amethyst, rose quartz, clear quartz, citrine, green jade, lapis lazuli, tiger eye and red jasper. That is the whole range, in one height.
Most of the cheap ones are not stone
A twelve inch tree can be found online for a few hundred rupees, and at that price the beads are usually dyed glass, resin or acrylic. Ours sit under two thousand, and what separates the two listings is the material rather than the bead count, which is why a bead count on its own tells you very little.
If you are comparing, the checks are quick and you can do them on anything that arrives. Natural stone holds cold against the inside of your wrist for several seconds, where glass and resin warm to skin temperature almost at once. Natural stone is never perfectly even, so a tree on which every bead is the same saturated colour has usually been dyed. Hold a bead up to a lamp and look for bubbles that are perfectly round and fixed in place, which is glass rather than mineral.
None of that makes a glass tree a bad object. It makes it a different one at a different price, and it is worth knowing which of the two you are buying.
What each stone is held to mean
Most people arrive here having read that a particular stone does a particular thing, so here is the tradition as it is actually taught, and then the part that usually gets left off.
Amethyst is the calm stone in the lore, associated with sleep, meditation and a settled head. It runs violet to deep purple and it is the one most people recognise on sight. Rose quartz is the stone of love and family feeling, pale pink and softly translucent, and it is the one most often given away. Citrine is the money tree, pale yellow through to honey, and it is the piece asked for by name when the intent is prosperity. Green jade is the other stone the same tradition points to for money, though it is described as steady increase rather than sudden gain. Clear quartz is the amplifier in the lore, held to strengthen whatever the others are doing, and it happens to be the most versatile against a busy shelf. Lapis lazuli carries clarity and truth, and it is also the deepest colour here, an ultramarine flecked with pyrite gold. Tiger eye is the protection and focus stone, banded gold and brown, with a shimmer that shifts as you walk past it. Red jasper is the grounding stone, brick toned and more opaque than the rest.
Now the part we will not dress up. Those are associations carried by vastu, by feng shui and by the crystal healing tradition. They are worth knowing, because they are why one tree gets chosen over another and why the object reads as a considered gift rather than a generic one. They are not a medical or a financial claim, and nobody can show you evidence that a stone changed an outcome in a house. Where a seller promises you a result, they are promising something they have no way to deliver. What we can tell you is what the stone is, and what it looks like in a room.
Which one, if you want a straight answer
For money, a new business or a shop counter, citrine first and green jade second. For a wedding or an anniversary, rose quartz. For a bedroom, or for someone who sleeps badly, amethyst. For a desk or a study, tiger eye or clear quartz. If you have no idea and it simply has to land well, rose quartz and amethyst are the two that are legible to a person who has never thought about stone.
Then look at the wall behind it, because that decides more than any of the above. Lapis lazuli and amethyst hold their own against dark paint and dark wood. Clear quartz and rose quartz disappear against a pale wall and want something behind them. Citrine and green jade sit well beside brass.
Where to keep one
Vastu convention places a crystal tree in the north or the north east of a home, and the feng shui bagua puts the wealth position in the south east, which is where a citrine tree usually goes. In practice the three positions people actually choose are an office desk, an entrance console and a living room shelf. Following the convention costs nothing, so follow it if it matters to you.
The thing that will genuinely change how the piece looks is light. A crystal tree in a dim corner is a dark object. The same tree within reach of a window or a lamp is a different thing entirely, because everything you are paying for is the way cut stone handles light. Where a direction and a light source disagree, take the light.
One caution in the other direction. A bright room is fine, but a south facing sill in full sun all day will dull some natural stone over a few years, so it is not a permanent position.
Living with one
Dust it with a soft dry brush, working around the beads rather than pressing on them. Keep the base dry and do not run the piece under a tap, because water sits in the wire wrapping and marks the base over time. The branches are meant to be bent, so open out or tighten the spread once the tree is standing where it will live. The same flexibility is why it should not be stored loose in a drawer or packed under weight.
As a gift
It is one of the easier things to give. Nothing to install, nothing to maintain, no size to get wrong, and it reads immediately to someone who has never owned a piece of stone. That is why it moves at griha pravesh and housewarmings, at Diwali and Dhanteras, at weddings, and as a corporate piece where a run of identical items has to be packed and handed out on one day.
Every piece is checked at our own warehouse before it goes out, and everything ships in our own packaging, which is made to be opened rather than merely to survive the journey. On a gift that gets unwrapped in front of a room, that is the part that shows.
What we do not make
There is no seven chakra tree here at the moment, and since it is the version most often asked for, it is better said plainly than left for you to hunt. We do not carry green aventurine either, which is the third stone named alongside citrine and jade in almost every money tree article. And we make one height only, so if a mini or an eight inch tree is what the space needs, this is not the right shop today.
Related
The rest of the decorative range is in home decor and table decor. In metal rather than stone, the tortoise, elephant, horse and buddha pieces are in vastu and feng shui decor, and the brass animals in animal decor. A tree is a common griha pravesh and housewarming gift and a common wedding gift. For a quantity, the details go on the bulk order enquiry page, and the wider gifting range is in corporate gifts.