A leaf is neither. A cherry tree is a hardwood.
Hardwood. All deciduous (leaf bearing) trees are hardwoods.
By definition, all dicotyledon trees are hardwood trees. All polycotyledon trees are softwood trees. Cherry trees are dicotyledons. Long leaf pines have much harder wood than most hardwood trees. "Dade County Pine," a type of Slash Pine, is too hard to nail. Termites can not bite into it. It is still called softwood.
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An "acorn tree" would be an oak, which is hardwood. Rule of thumb: conifers are softwood, everything else is hardwood. Note that these are just words and don't actually mean anything about the "hardness" of the wood itself. Balsa (which is very soft) is a "hardwood," yew (which is pretty hard) is a softwood.
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.
Wikipedia lists palmwood as a hardwood.
No, it's a hardwood.
I believe that a sassafras tree is a hardwood
Aspen , being a deciduous tree, provides a hardwood.
Hardwood comes from trees with wide leaves, while softwood comes from conifers like cypress and pines. The chestnut tree is a hardwood tree.
No. It's a softwood. The difference isn't a matter of wood density. Softwoods come from needle-leaf trees, and hardwoods come from broadleaf trees. The softest wood in the world is balsa, which is extremely soft and lightweight...but because balsa trees are broadleaf, balsa is a hardwood. On the other hand, Radiata pine is roughly as hard as mahogany - which is unquestionably a hardwood - but because it's a needle-leaf tree it is a softwood.