What Is Hardwood Forestry

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees).

What defines a hardwood?

Hardwood is wood from dicot trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen. Hardwood (which comes from angiosperm trees) contrasts with softwood (which is from gymnosperm trees).

What tree is hardwood?

Hardwood comes from trees, which lose their leaves in the winter. Trees such as Ash, Beech and Oak etc. They are also slow growing and take anything up to 100 years to fully mature. This is a reason for the dense timber.