Succulents Fake Faux Lifelike Decorative Things

All the look, none of the watering schedule.

Regular price $13.25
Colors: C485
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Give Your Plants What They're Missing:

Start with the pot, then build out the shelf with the tools that keep what's in it actually thriving.


Artificial succulents were one of the first things we made when the faux plant category started making sense to us, and these thirteen styles represent the original generation — the set that proved people would buy fake plants on purpose rather than by accident. Faux succulents in this range cover the core silhouettes: compact rosettes, trailing stems, spiky upright clusters, and several low-profile groundcover shapes that fill a dish or pot arrangement without leaving awkward gaps. The plastic holds a realistic matte finish and the color shifts through multiple greens the way living tissue actually grows, which separates decorative succulents from the unmistakably plastic ones gas stations sell next to the beef jerky. Each piece stands independently, so you can arrange them in any vessel — shallow dishes, standard pots, glass terrariums, windowsill trays — and rearrange whenever the mood changes. No watering. No light requirements. No slow rot while you're away for a long weekend. Thirteen reasons to stop apologizing about the state of your living room plants.

Product detail
  • Material: Plastic
  • Year Designed: 2017
Dimension

Styles/ Dimensions (height measured from the base of the plant):

  • A325: 4.25" diameter, 1.25" tall
  • B325: 2.5" diameter, 6" tall 
  • C485: 4" diameter, 2.75" tall 
  • D485: 3.75" diameter, 2" tall 
  • E485: 5" diameter, 3" tall
  • F485: 4.75" diameter, 2.5" tall
  • G615: 1.5" diameter, 5" tall 
  • H615: 5.5" diameter, 2" tall 
  • I615: 3" diameter, 2.25" tall
  • J615: 2.25" diameter, 3.25" tall
  • K615: 2.75" diameter, 5.75" tall
  • L615: 5.75" diameter 4.5" tall
  • M485: 4.5" diameter, 2.5" tall 
Shipping & returns

Shipping

  • Free shipping: Orders $200+ within the US
  • Standard: 5–8 business days, Express 2–3 business days (at checkout)
  • International Ships: to 40 countries — rates at checkout
  • Packaging Ships: in outer box to protect gift box

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Returns

We accept returns within 30 days of delivery on unused items in original packaging. If your piece arrives damaged, contact us within 7 days with a photo and we will replace it at no charge.

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Why These Artificial Succulents

Thirteen styles might sound like a lot until you try to fill a succulent arrangement and realize that three varieties of the same shape makes the whole display look like it was purchased as a single unit from the clearance aisle. Variety is the structural argument for this set: the thirteen silhouettes span enough range — tight rosettes, cascading trailers, vertical spikes, low mounding forms — that a dish arrangement of four or five pieces reads as a collected garden rather than a boxed set. The plastic construction uses a matte surface coating that avoids the high-reflectivity sheen common in budget artificial plants. Color isn't uniform: each piece carries a gradient that transitions through two or three tones from base to leaf tip, matching the way chlorophyll distributes unevenly in real succulent tissue. The stems are firm enough to hold position inside any container without staking or adhesive — press them into decorative gravel, river stones, or floral foam and they stay put. Unlike live succulents, these don't stretch toward light sources over time, which means the arrangement you set on Tuesday looks identical on Friday and on every Friday after that indefinitely. The construction is weatherproof enough for covered outdoor display — a screened porch, a shaded patio table — though sustained direct UV will eventually lighten the coloring over a span of years. For indoor use under any lighting condition, the color holds without visible degradation.

Pro Tip: Rough up the arrangement.

Faux succulents and airplants come out of the box looking too symmetrical. Bend a few leaves at slight angles, vary the height, tuck one piece slightly behind another — real plants never sit in perfect formation.

Perfect Pairs for Any Shelf

Premium Faux Succulents

If you want the next tier of realism, our premium artificial succulents offer fifteen botanical styles with enhanced color gradients and a twelve-inch indistinguishability threshold that makes them suitable for close-range displays and professional staging work. Same zero-maintenance promise, tighter attention to individual leaf detail.

All Faux Plants

These thirteen styles sit alongside tillandsia replicas, permanent felt flowers, and wall-mounted display holders in our full faux plants lineup. Whether your shelf needs rosettes, your wall needs spiky greenery, or your vase needs pompom blooms, the range covers every permanent-plant category in one place.

Porcelain Plant Pots

Give your artificial succulents a proper home. Our Liberté porcelain pot in four-inch size is glazed, includes a drainage saucer you won't need, and pairs cleanly with two or three compact rosettes arranged in decorative gravel. The pot looks serious enough that nobody questions whether the plants inside are real.


The Chive Story

Chive has been designing permanent alternatives to the plants people accidentally kill since 2004 — ceramic flowers, terrariums, faux greenery that stays exactly as green as the day it shipped. We bring our full range to the Philadelphia Flower Show each year, where real horticulturists politely inspect our artificial specimens, which keeps our quality standards calibrated to the people who know plants best.


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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between these and the premium faux succulents?

The premium set offers fifteen styles with enhanced multi-tone color gradients and a matte waxy finish engineered to pass at twelve inches from a live succulent. This set offers thirteen styles with solid realistic coloring at a lower price point — excellent for shelf displays, desk arrangements, and any placement where viewers stand at normal room distance rather than leaning in for inspection. Both are plastic, both are permanent, both require zero care.

Are artificial succulents a low maintenance alternative to real ones?

Low maintenance implies some maintenance exists. These require none. No watering, no light positioning, no repotting, no fertilizer, no monitoring for mealybugs, no quietly mourning the one that rotted because you overwatered it on a guilt-driven Tuesday evening. Our customer Thomas switched after losing his fourth live echeveria and now tells people his succulents are thriving, which is technically true because they can't do anything else.

Do these fake succulents work as table decor for events?

They're excellent for events specifically because they arrive looking perfect and stay that way through setup, service, and teardown without any of the logistics that live centerpieces require. No advance ordering from a florist, no wilting under venue lights, no post-event disposal. Our customer Michelle used them for a wedding rehearsal dinner and then moved the same arrangements to her living room afterward, where they've been ever since.

Are faux succulents safe for homes with curious pets?

The plastic is non-toxic. Cats and dogs who investigate will encounter a firm leaf that doesn't taste like food and doesn't respond to chewing in a satisfying way, which tends to end the experiment quickly. Our customer Ben reports that his corgi sniffed one, attempted to carry it off, found it uninteresting, and has ignored the entire arrangement since — which, for a corgi, counts as a ringing non-endorsement.

How many varieties are included in this succulent set?

Thirteen distinct styles spanning the core succulent silhouettes: compact rosettes, trailing stems, spiky vertical clusters, and low-spreading groundcover shapes. Each style differs enough in form and coloring that a mixed arrangement of four or five pieces reads as a collected garden rather than a matched set purchased in a single box.

Can you mix artificial and real succulents in the same arrangement?

You can, and plenty of people do. The trick is watering access — real succulents in a mixed arrangement still need occasional moisture, so use a container where you can reach the soil around the live ones without disturbing the fakes. The color matching is close enough that mixed displays work visually. My neighbor Carol runs a fifty-fifty split and challenges dinner guests to sort them. Her accuracy rate among guests sits around forty percent.

Do these faux succulents fit inside a standard pot or planter?

Any pot or planter that holds live succulents holds these. The bases are sized to sit in standard four-inch and six-inch vessels, and they press securely into decorative gravel, river stones, or floral foam. No drainage needed, obviously, which means you can use sealed decorative containers that would rot a real plant's roots within a week.

Are these realistic enough for everyday home decor?

At normal room distance — three to six feet — they pass without question. The matte finish and multi-tone coloring avoid the glossy single-green look that identifies cheap fakes immediately. Close inspection at arm's length reveals the construction, but in everyday placement on shelves, mantels, and side tables, they read as live plants that happen to always look perfect, which is exactly the point.

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