We will never know the question's answer. I have feelings though, and to me, that's what counts. I don't like to lose plants.........period.
I know about artificial plants and found out kind of my accident how real they looked. I was looking up one of the plants I grow and stumbled upon a company that had artificial ones. There were very expensive, 5-10x what a live one costs. I knew then that these were high quality artificial plants.