Trees Used For Hardwood

Softwood trees include cedar fir hemlock pine redwood and spruce.

Trees used for hardwood.

America s forests contain hundreds of different hardwood tree species. They produce a fruit or nut and often go dormant in the winter. In fact about 40 percent of american trees are in the hardwood category. In a home softwoods primarily are used as structural lumber such as 2x4s and 2x6s with limited decorative applications.

Hardwood is contrasted to softwood which comes from conifers cone bearing seed plants. A cord of wood from a hardwood shade tree will contain more woody fibers than a cord of wood from a softwood conifer. Wood hardness varies among the hardwood species and some are actually softer than some softwoods. Hardwoods are not always harder than softwoods balsa wood being an example of this.

Deciduous perennial plants which are normally leafless for some time during the year. Used commonly to make baseball bats and flooring this hardy tree has taken monumental hits lately from the asian emerald ash borer. Hardwood is wood from dicot trees these are usually found in broad leaved temperate and tropical forests. If your yard has poor drainage you need water loving trees.

The trees have broad leaves rather than needle like leaves. A few well known hardwood species are oak maple and cherry but many. Because these hardwoods have dense trunks they make better fireplace wood than softwoods. In the autumn they usually change color and drop.

All hardwoods are angiosperms flowering plants the largest group of land plants. They grow in the tropical. Tropical hardwoods including mahogany rosewood teak and wenge are not native to north america. Some trees near water or that grow in standing water will die.

Trees with broad flat leaves as opposed to coniferous or needled trees. Also known as tulip poplar and yellow poplar this is one of the largest of the hardwood trees with an average height of 130 to 160 feet and a trunk diameter of six to eight feet. Spread widely throughout the eastern united states poplar is the state tree of. Though similar in appearance to the green ash this tree s leaves are noticeably lighter on the underside.

Dozens upon dozens of different wood species are used for hardwood flooring. These trees are beautiful but intimidating with their thorny upper branches and rope like bark but they make awesome fence posts and rails and they resist rot unlike any other hardwood. But if you choose wisely you can find trees that not only grow in wet swampy area but will thrive and may even help correct the poor drainage in that area. Hardwood is wood from deciduous trees and broad leaf evergreen trees.

The leaves on these hardwood trees tend to be broad. With white dense wood the white ash is the most common daily wood of the hardwood trees.