IKEA FEJKA vs a Specialist Artificial Tree: A 21 cm Tabletop Plant Against a Floor-Standing Tree

IKEA Canada does not list a full-size, year-round artificial tree. When we checked ikea.com/ca on 12 October 2026, the 150 cm FEJKA olive tree was not listed in Canada. A search for "artificial olive tree" returned 182 products and not one of them was a FEJKA olive. The only olive item in the results was an artificial olive branch, 75 cm, at $4.99.

IKEA Canada's year-round artificial potted plant range tops out at about 21 cm, which is a tabletop pot, and the only artificial items they sell at 150 cm and above are seasonal Christmas trees. The comparison that matters is a tabletop plant against a floor-standing tree, and those are two different purchases. Below is what each range actually covers and where the line between them falls.

Artificial trees and plants are the whole of the Eververda catalogue rather than one category inside a general home range, spanning residential sizes through commercial-scale specimens in one place, and US residential pieces ship free and tracked, 2 to 10 business days from order.

What IKEA Canada's artificial plant range actually covers

The ceiling is 21 cm. On ikea.com/ca on 12 October 2026, the tallest FEJKA potted plants we found were a weeping fig at 21 cm for $79.99 and a Kentia palm at 21 cm for $79.99. A bamboo at 21 cm was $74.99. Everything else sits below that.

The ladder underneath looks like this, all prices CAD as published on 12 October 2026:

• Herbs, 9 cm: $1.99 to $3.99
• Hanging plant, 9 cm: $4.99
• Crocodile fern, 12 cm: $9.99
• Banana, 12 cm: $14.99
• Lavender with pot: $16.99
• Eucalyptus, 15 cm: $22.99
• Boxwood, 15 cm: $59.99
• Areca palm, 19 cm: $49.99
• Eucalyptus, 19 cm: $59.99
• Maple, 19 cm: $79.99
• Bamboo, 21 cm: $74.99
• Weeping fig, 21 cm: $79.99
• Kentia palm, 21 cm: $79.99

Read that list as a range of desk and shelf pieces, because that is what it is. Nothing in it is a floor plant, and nothing in it is a tree. The most expensive item on the list costs $79.99 and stands 21 cm tall.

The only tall artificial things IKEA sells are Christmas trees

IKEA Canada does carry artificial items at 150 cm and above, and every one of them we found on 12 October 2026 was a seasonal artificial Christmas tree: 150 cm at $32.99 and at $59.99, 180 cm at $79.99, 210 cm at $149.99, and 240 cm at $199.00.

They are not a year-round tree. A conifer silhouette with wired branches reads as Christmas in July, it is sold seasonally rather than stocked all year, and nobody puts one in a living room corner in March. If you were hoping the 240 cm price of $199.00 meant IKEA had a floor-height faux tree for $199.00, it does not. It means they have a Christmas tree.

A tabletop plant and a floor-standing tree are different purchases

It is not mainly a price gap. It is a category gap.

What a 21 cm artificial plant is genuinely good for. A shelf that needs something green. A desk. A windowsill. A bathroom counter where a real plant would die in the humidity and low light. A bedside table. A kitchen rail of herbs. At that size, construction differences barely register, because nobody inspects a 12 cm plant from 30 cm away.

What a tabletop plant cannot do. It cannot fill a corner. It cannot occupy the gap between a sofa arm and a wall. It cannot anchor an entryway or sit beside a console as the thing you notice when you walk in. Those jobs need height, and height changes the engineering: a tall canopy needs a trunk stiff enough not to lean and a base heavy enough not to tip. We wrote the mechanics of that up separately in how to stop a tall artificial tree from tipping over.

The trap in between. Buying several tabletop plants to substitute for one floor tree does not work and usually costs more. Three 21 cm pots at $79.99 come to $239.97 and still read as three small pots. One floor tree at a similar price reads as a tree. If what the room needs is height, buy height.

When a floor-standing tree is the actual requirement

Our own rule, set out in how to choose the right size artificial tree, is that a feature tree should reach roughly 75 to 80 percent of the ceiling height. In a standard 8 ft room that is about a 6 ft tree. A 21 cm plant is not a smaller version of that; it is a different object.

Here is where our own floor range starts and what it costs, read from the Eververda catalogue on 12 October 2026. All prices CAD.

• The cheapest floor-standing tree we sell is the 4 to 6 ft three-stalk dracaena, at $199 for the 4 ft, $229 for the 5 ft and $329 for the 6 ft.
• For olive specifically, the 4 to 6 ft olive with PE foliage on stainless steel branches was in stock in two sizes on 12 October 2026: $229 for the 5 ft and $289 for the 6 ft.
• The 5.25 to 8 ft olive with silk leaves and fruit in a black pot runs $249 for the 5.25 ft, $289 for the 6 ft, $369 for the 7 ft and $449 for the 8 ft.
• If you want a real trunk rather than a moulded one, the 5.25 to 7 ft olive on a natural wood trunk is $249 for the 5.25 ft, $299 for the 6 ft and $419 for the 7 ft. Why that matters up close is covered in what makes an artificial tree look real.
• If you want the planter and the weight handled for you rather than buying a pot separately, the 4 to 7 ft fiddle leaf fig in a white planter with a weighted base is $244.99 for the 4 ft, $334.99 for the 5 ft, $389.00 for the 6 ft and $450.99 for the 7 ft.

That is the real shape of the decision. From about $199 and from 4 ft upward, Eververda covers floor-standing trees and IKEA Canada's year-round range does not. There is no overlap to argue about. Where the whole ladder sits, from the cheapest faux stem to a four-figure specimen, is mapped in why faux trees cost $80 or $900, and the Canadian retailer landscape is in where to buy artificial trees in Canada.

Eververda sells the products described in this section.

When height is the brief

Move to a floor-standing tree when the brief is height: a corner that reads as empty, an entryway that needs a focal point, a room where you want something at roughly 75 to 80 percent of the ceiling. That is a different purchase with different engineering behind it, and it is the only purchase where paying more buys you anything at all.

Frequently asked questions

Does IKEA Canada still sell a 150 cm artificial olive tree?

Not when we checked. On ikea.com/ca on 12 October 2026, a search for "artificial olive tree" returned 182 products and contained no FEJKA olive at all. The only olive item in those results was an artificial olive branch, 75 cm, at $4.99.

How tall do IKEA's artificial plants actually get?

IKEA Canada's year-round artificial potted plant range tops out at about 21 cm. On 12 October 2026 the tallest we found were a weeping fig at 21 cm for $79.99 and a Kentia palm at 21 cm for $79.99, with a bamboo at 21 cm for $74.99 just below them. The only artificial items we found at 150 cm and above were seasonal artificial Christmas trees, from $32.99 at 150 cm to $199.00 at 240 cm.

Can I use an IKEA artificial plant to fill a living room corner?

No. A 21 cm pot is a tabletop object and a corner needs floor height. Our size rule is roughly 75 to 80 percent of the ceiling, so about 6 ft in a standard 8 ft room. Buying several small pots instead does not substitute: three 21 cm plants at $79.99 come to $239.97 and still look like three small plants.

What is the cheapest floor-standing artificial tree Eververda sells?

The 4 ft size of our 4 to 6 ft three-stalk dracaena at $199 CAD, read from our catalogue on 12 October 2026. For olive specifically, the lowest in-stock price on the same date was $229 CAD for the 5 ft size of the 4 to 6 ft olive with PE foliage on stainless steel branches.

Is IKEA's artificial plant range cheaper than a specialist tree?

Per item, yes: $1.99 to $79.99 against $199 and up. The two ranges do not sell the same thing, though, so the comparison does not settle anything on its own. IKEA's ceiling is 21 cm and our floor is 4 ft. Decide the placement first, then the price follows from it.

Can any of these go outdoors?

Treat that as a separate question with its own evidence. Fade and fire performance are not implied by a placement label on any listing. A UV claim is published only where the documentation supports one, and Eververda does not publish a fire figure for a product unless it can hand you documentation for it. Ask any seller for that documentation in writing before putting artificial foliage outdoors year-round. We went through what actually survives a Canadian winter in can artificial plants stay outside in a Canadian winter and the general case in can you put artificial trees outside.

IKEA Canada prices and sizes in this article were checked on ikea.com/ca on 12 October 2026 and are CAD as published on that date; IKEA may change pricing, sizing, range or stock at any time, and a product listed today may be delisted tomorrow. Eververda prices and in-stock sizes were read from our own catalogue on 12 October 2026 and are CAD. Specified heights are nominal.