In Britain the most widely-known hardwoods are the English oak, ash, yew, beech, willow, alder, elm, apple, birch, elder, hazel, hornbeam, poplar and chestnut.
Each has its own properties and each was used historically for different tasks; cart wheels consisted of parts made from at least three different woods.
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.
Hardwood
A leaf is neither. A cherry tree is a hardwood.
A hardwood native to Souteast Asia."Teak" is a tropical hardwood (deciduous) tree species.
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Yes.
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.
Yes.YES
I believe that a sassafras tree is a hardwood