Hardwood is wood from deciduous trees and broad leaf evergreen trees.
Trees most often used for hardwood.
Softwood comes from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce.
Although these trees are often called hardwoods wood hardness varies among the hardwood species.
Most conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees fall into the softwood category.
The lumber harvested from maple oak and other hardwood trees is often used to produce hardwood flooring.
Some may actually be softer than many coniferous softwoods.
These trees are most commonly are known as deciduous trees more scientifically known as angiosperms.
Notable exceptions are the evergreen magnolias and american holly trees which maintain leaves longer than a year.
Oak is the hardwood most commonly used for fine durable furniture.
The most common species in north america are oaks maple hickory birch beech and cherry.
Oak trees produce a wood that ranks as the most commonly used hardwood in furniture making.
All hardwoods are angiosperms flowering plants the largest group of land plants.
Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots.
A very hard and heavy wood oak can be found in red and white varieties throughout north america and europe.
Most common hardwoods unlike the conifers or softwood firs spruce and pines hardwood trees have evolved into a broad array of common species.
Hardwoods come from any trees which do not produce needles or cones.
Common hardwood species include oak maple cherry mahogany and walnut.
Hardwoods are not always harder than softwoods balsa wood being an example of this.
Other types of hardwood trees in american forests include.
Its life is significantly shorter than most other hardwood trees with a record lifespan of only 190 years.
Grown throughout the u s canada and europe as both deciduous and evergreen trees oak wood may display one of several tones of red or white and is typically used for sturdy fine grades of furniture.
Trees classified as hardwood do not always produce wood that is harder than softwood.
Hardwoods are trees which produces leaves and seeds.
A few well known hardwood species are oak maple and cherry but many more trees share hardwood tree characteristics.
Hardwood is contrasted to softwood which comes from conifers cone bearing seed plants.
