Trees with broad, flat leaves as opposed to coniferous or needled trees. Wood hardness varies among the hardwood species, and some are actually softer than some softwoods.
A hardwood tree is hard!
Hardwood comes from trees with wide leaves, while softwood comes from conifers like cypress and pines. The chestnut tree is a hardwood tree.
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A leaf is neither. A cherry tree is a hardwood.
A hardwood native to Souteast Asia."Teak" is a tropical hardwood (deciduous) tree species.
To my knowledge, any deciduous tree ( A tree that loses it's leaves in the winter) is considered a hardwood. Even the Tulip Poplar tree that is most often mistaken for a softwood, is a hardwood tree.
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Hardwoods tend to be broadleafed and deciduous trees. To be more exact hardwood trees are both dicotyledons and angiosperms.
Wikipedia lists palmwood as a hardwood.
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