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