Huon Pine Hardwood Or Softwood

The richness of its golden colour and figure make it one of the world s most desirable furniture and veneering timbers.

Huon pine hardwood or softwood.

Huon pine is a conifer endemic to tasmania and is found only in the west and south west of the island. True pines belong to the pinus genus and grow almost exclusively in the northern hemisphere. Pine trees are considered a softwood tree which means the wood is softer than hardwood varieties. 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.

Pine trees grow around the world not just in the u s. Huon pine possibly the best known tasmanian softwood huon pine has a unique odour which is caused by its oil. 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. Excellent for craft and boat building it works very well and finishes beautifully.

Softwood comes from conifers such as fir pine cedar and redwood. The richness of its golden colour and figure make it one of the world s most desirable furniture and veneering timbers. Huon pine is the prince of tasmanian timbers. Pine has a great deal of stiffness and.

It is sometimes referred to as new zealand red pine. Every other differentiation may just be a characteristic. Softwood produces more flames and sometimes more intense heat than hardwood but over a shorter period of time. 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.

Like nearly all native pines in the southern hemisphere huon pine is not a true pine though it is a conifer softwood. It is a feature tree of the climax wet temperate rainforest and grows on the edge of rivers. Pine is not a hardwood. Is a softwood because even though it has a pine cone the cone opens up to let seeds disperse in the wind.

Softwood is good for starting fires and making kindling. Anyway angiosperms and gymnosperms determine a hardwood or a softwood i think.