Edible items such as gingerbread, chocolate and other sweets are also popular, and are tied to or hung from the tree's branches with ribbons. An angel or star might be placed at the top of the tree to represent the archangel Gabriel or the Star of Bethlehem from the Nativity. Today, there is a wide variety of traditional ornaments, such as garlands, baubles, tinsel, and candy canes. In the 18th century, it began to be illuminated by candles which were ultimately replaced by Christmas lights after the advent of electrification. The tree was traditionally decorated with 'roses made of colored paper, apples, wafers, tinsel, sweetmeats'. The modern Christmas tree was developed in early modern Germany (where it is today called Weihnachtsbaum or Christbaum), A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.
