Decorative tree stand

A portable stand adapted for supporting a trunk of a large plant and tree on an upper surface thereof, and having a lower surface suitable for resting on a substantially level, underlying first platform comprising:

• (a) a one-piece, molded body with the upper surface thereof, having a centrally aligned, bowl-shaped depression which is encompassed with an uppermost circular rim;
• (b) an upstanding rigid pin with upper and lower longitudinal ends, with the lower end being anchored substantially centrally of the depression and being adapted to receive the lower end of a tree trunk, and which trunk is ensconceable thereupon;
• (c) the outer sidewalls of the body extending radially outward from the uppermost rim thereof to a lowermost peripheral rim of the lower surface thereof, thus presenting an external truncated conical frustum configured skirt;
• (d) a generally planar, bottom plate located centrally of, and integral with, the stand lower surface, the plate being adapted to make frictional contact with an underlying first platform, said bottom plate being further provided with a plurality of diagonally-oriented, generally linear, ribs that enhance the degree of frictional contact between the stand lower surface and the underlying first platform, and,
• (e) in which the underlying surface of the conical frustrum-configured skirt is provided with a plurality of vertically oriented, and radially aligned, integral ribs which are circumferentially spaced about the skirt surface that serve to reinforce the rigidity of the stand sidewalls.