This iconic wood known throughout the world for its beauty versatility and spicy aroma is a softwood.
Cedar tree hardwood or soft.
It s a term to describe their biological characteristics not the actual hardness of the wood.
That is not the case for cedar.
The common term for all gymnosperms is softwoods.
No cedar is not a hardwood.
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.
So cedar is per definition a softwood.
Hardwood is wood from trees that are angiosperm.
It belongs to a group of plants known as gymnosperms which includes most conifers such as pine and fir trees.
Cedar is a gymnosperm tree meaning non flowering.
A cedar is a conifer therefore is classified as a softwood.
Other soft hardwoods.
Generally if a tree is an angiosperm bearing.
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.
The actual hardness or density of the wood has little to do with the classification.
Simply put angiosperm means that the trees are producing seeds that are encased and that the trees are flowering.
Hardwood comes from deciduous leaf bearing trees.