Pine Hardwood Or Soft Wood

As a general rule conifers are softwood and deciduas trees are hardwood.

Pine hardwood or soft wood. This is not always the case but there are not many exceptions. Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots. Softwood comes from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce. With few exceptions you can generally assume that woods from a softwood tree will be less dense than woods from a hardwood tree.

It comes from a coniferous tree which is one that has needles instead of leaves and is green all year round in other words an evergreen. The wood from conifers is classified as softwood because with a few exceptions it s softer than the wood from deciduous trees which is classified as hardwood. Evergreens and conifers are softwoods and are easily identified by their distinctive needles and that good old pine aroma. From angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots the hardwood is formed by these while from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce the softwood is formed.

Pine is considered a softwood. Generally speaking softwoods pine fir etc grow much faster than hardwood species and typically this results in a relatively softer wood.