Hykolity 6 ft Pencil Tree With Color Changing LEDs: Strong Paperwork, Middling Fullness

Our arithmetic: tips, lights and clearance

Our arithmetic on the maker's figures. The tree size calculator runs the same check for your own ceiling.

What Hykolity writes, line by line

From the maker's product page, read November 14, 2026. A line that says "not stated" is a number the maker does not publish.

Six scores for the 6 ft pencil

Scores judge what the maker states, not a tree we set up. How we score.

Corner tree, changing lights

This tree suits a narrow spot where a colorful tree is the point: a hallway, an apartment corner, a child's room. A household that wants a thick, full-bodied look from every angle should open the slim pre-lit ranking, where trees with more tips per foot sit higher. The tree also appears in the pre-lit ranking and in the overall list.

How full is a pencil tree with 544 tips on 72 inches?

Middle density: 91 tips per foot and 18 tips per inch of base width, a 4 on our fullness scale.

The listing gives one count for the whole tree, 544 branch tips. Divided by the 6 ft height that is 91 tips per foot, and divided by the 30 in base it is 18 tips for every inch of width. On our fullness ladder 80 tips per foot earns a 4 and 110 earns a 6, so this tree sits just above the bottom rung. It will read as a neat column, not a thick one.

The page promises a full and life-like look and plenty of room for ornaments. Both phrases are marketing; the count is the fact. A pencil tree packs fewer tips into each inch than a full one by design, so the fair comparison is with other slim trees in the set of listings we read.

Our arithmetic on counts and widths printed on each maker's page, read November 14, 2026.

What do 200 color changing LEDs and a foot pedal actually do?

They switch between warm white and multicolor through 10 modes, on bulbs wired to stay lit when one fails.

The 200 LEDs are strung on the tree at the factory, 33 per foot of height. A touch of the foot pedal moves them from warm white to multicolor and through 10 colors and actions, which the title calls 10 color modes. The page does not list the modes, so we cannot say how many are steady and how many flash.

Safely designed to remain lit even if one burns out means a dead bulb should not darken the strand. The page does not say how many sections the strands are split into, or what happens if a whole section fails.

A word on pedals: the CPSC's July 2020 recall 20-153 covered a foot-pedal controller on Home Accents Holiday 7.5 ft and 9 ft trees sold at Home Depot, which could overheat. That is another brand and another pedal. It is a reason to keep this pedal in the open, off rugs, and to follow the NFPA advice to switch tree lights off when you leave home or go to bed.

Do the bullets and the spec sheet agree?

On the numbers that matter, yes; on materials and certification wording, not quite.

We read the bullets and the technical table side by side. The counts agree: 6 ft, 30 in, 544 tips, 200 lights. The words around them do not always match.

Bullets and spec sheet from the maker's page on amazon.com, read November 14, 2026.

Will a 30 in base and 72 in height fit your corner and your ceiling?

It needs a 42 in circle of floor and a ceiling of about 7 ft 2 in.

The base is 30 in across, which covers 4.9 sq ft of floor. Add 6 in on each side to walk past and the clear circle is 42 in, or 9.6 sq ft. For height, count 72 in for the tree, 5 in if the stand is not part of that figure (the page is silent) and 9 in for a topper: 86 in, or 7 ft 2 in.

At 14.3 lb the tree is light for its height, which helps when you move it to the corner and back. The tree size calculator runs the same sum for your own ceiling.

Our arithmetic: ceiling minus 86 in.

What does one year of warranty cover, and has the brand been recalled?

One year, free exchange for quality problems; no Hykolity recall found at the CPSC on November 14, 2026.

The listing says the tree is guaranteed for 1 years and offers a free exchange for quality problems within that time, handled directly by the maker. It does not say who pays shipping or whether the pedal and bulbs are included. A Puleo pencil tree of the same width backs the tree for 5 years and the bulbs for 2; that is why this Hykolity scores 8, not 10, for warranty and information. Even so, a written year beats the silence of listings that print no warranty at all, and the exchange offer is the part to keep: save the order record and photograph any fault before you contact the maker.

We searched the CPSC recall database by title, product name and description for Hykolity and for the maker named on the page, Changzhou Nanfang Enterprise, and found no recall. A search is not a guarantee about other trade names: the recalls page lists what we did find for other brands.

Read this before you plug in the pedal

Printed on the page and useful

• UL written for the bulbs and flame resistant branches, which earns 10 of 10 for safety marks
• Base width (30 in) and weight (14.3 lb) both stated, the two numbers a corner depends on
• Hinged branches around the center pole and a metal stand
• Bulbs designed to stay lit when one burns out, according to the listing
• A one year warranty with free exchange for quality problems

Not printed, or not consistent

• No share of molded PE is stated: the branches are called fire retardant PVC, so realism depends on shaping
• The spec sheet lists the material as metal while the bullets describe PVC branches
• The page does not list the 10 pedal modes, so a flashing mode cannot be ruled out before you buy

A fit if you

• Have a corner or hallway with about 42 in of clear floor and a ceiling of 7 ft 2 in or more
• Want warm white lights and multicolor lights from one tree, without restringing anything
• Prefer a printed warranty and a printed weight over a denser but vaguer tree

Where this pencil tree lands