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the difference between hard wood and soft wood tree's is hard wood tree's are summer/spring/fall trees like maple trees and soft wood tree's are like Douglas fur's ever green tree's
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∙ 14y agoSupposedly , hardwood trees have leaves and softwood doesn't
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Is the oldest tree in the world hardwood or softwood?
The terms coniferous and deciduous refer to trees, rather than particular kinds of forests. Forests described as coniferous or deciduous are those containing primarily those kinds of trees. Coniferous trees are trees which don't change over the seasons, like evergreens and other pine trees.
What trees are hardwood?
Hardwood trees are trees that produce seeds in some covering. Most of the time, the covering is a fruit or vegetable, eg. avocados. It is also a lot denser that softwood trees. Hardwood trees is the wood people use in furniture such as a table or chair. Don't think that because the name of the tree is 'hardwood', it means that the tree is hard, because all trees are hard, whether they're hardwood or softwood trees. thanks, i hope i helped you with your research on hardwood trees -melissa.P
Is tamarack a soft or hardwood?
Tamarack, otherwise known as larch, is a softwood. Softwood species are normally evergreen trees with needles and cones, conifers. Tamarack is a conifer but it is deciduous, loses its needles each fall like a hardwood.
Which type of timber comes from deciduous trees?
Hardwood comes from deciduous trees. Softwood comes from conifers.
Is a cedar tree softwood or hardwood?
Douglas fir - like all firs - is a softwood."Softwood" is actually a term that is used to classify all the conifers while "hardwood" is used as a classification for all angiosperm trees. In terms of actual "hardness", density or mechanical strength, the "softwoods" overlap the "hardwoods" with the hardest softwoods being harder than the softest hardwoods. The average hardness for hardwoods is harder than the average hardness of softwoods. Douglas fir in particular is definitely softer than most hardwoods.
How can you tell the difference between softwood and hardwood?
When the trees are alive, hardwood trees have leaves, and softwoods have needles. If a nail or other sharp object goes into the dead wood easily, then it can be qualified as a softwood. If it's difficult to stick it in, it can be classified as a hardwood.
Is evergreen trees hardwood or softwood?
softwood?
Is pine a softwood or hardwood?
Pine is a soft wood. Generally speaking, Trees with leaves are hardwood, Trees with needles are softwood.
What are the similarities between hardwood and softwood?
Hardwood and softwood both are originated from trees, i.e matured trees. Both have the same mode of seasoning and both are generally used in woodwork and capentary. This is in short some similarities between the two.
Are Sycamore trees hardwood or softwood?
Sycamore is a hardwood.
Are pine hardwood trees?
Pine is softwood.
Is teak a hardwood?
Yes as trees with needles are usually Softwood and trees with leaves are usually Hardwood
What trees are hardwood and what trees are softwood?
As a general rule conifers (ones with needles or cones) are softwood and deciduous trees (ones with leaves) are hardwood. This is not always the case but there are not many exceptions.
Are sassafras trees hardwood or softwood?
I believe that a sassafras tree is a hardwood
What country do you find softwood?
Softwood trees are any trees that have needle-like leaves, like pine trees, fir, redwood, or cedar. Hardwoods come from trees with broad leaves. Both varieties can be found almost anywhere worldwide.
Is spruse a hardwood?
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.
Is the pacific maple a softwood or hardwood tree?
Hardwood. All deciduous (leaf bearing) trees are hardwoods.
