Other soft hardwoods.
Cedar tree hardwood or soft.
Hardwood is wood from trees that are angiosperm.
It s a term to describe their biological characteristics not the actual hardness of the wood.
Cedar is a gymnosperm tree meaning non flowering.
It belongs to a group of plants known as gymnosperms which includes most conifers such as pine and fir trees.
Hardwood comes from deciduous leaf bearing trees.
No cedar is not a hardwood.
Simply put angiosperm means that the trees are producing seeds that are encased and that the trees are flowering.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut.
The common term for all gymnosperms is softwoods.
That is not the case for cedar.
A cedar is a conifer therefore is classified as a softwood.
This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.
Generally if a tree is an angiosperm bearing.
But that doesn t mean all softwoods are.
This iconic wood known throughout the world for its beauty versatility and spicy aroma is a softwood.