Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut.
Cedar tree hardwood or soft.
Hardwood is wood from trees that are angiosperm.
Cedar is a gymnosperm tree meaning non flowering.
A cedar is a conifer therefore is classified as a softwood.
But that doesn t mean all softwoods are.
No cedar is not a hardwood.
It s a term to describe their biological characteristics not the actual hardness of the wood.
It belongs to a group of plants known as gymnosperms which includes most conifers such as pine and fir trees.
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.
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.
Cedar is not a hardwood it is a softwood.
Generally if a tree is an angiosperm bearing.
So cedar is per definition a softwood.
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.
Other soft hardwoods.
That is not the case for cedar.