Other soft hardwoods.
Is beech a hardwood or softwood.
It generally is less dense than hardwood.
When the overstory is harvested the beech is released and has a head start over other species.
Birch is reserved for butcher blocks some tool handles and specialty.
Hardwood is always much more expensive than the softer woods.
European beech hardwood fagus sylvatica this tree grows to around the same heights as american beech though the diameter is more consistently measured to about five feet.
The coloring is also very similar to that of american beech with shades of pink complimenting the creamy color of the wood though a darker golden color arises in veneer.
The trees we have are quite large but many are hollow.
Beech counts as a hardwood tree for it has flowers.
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.
On a hardness scale birch lumber ranks at the top with hard rock maple and in fact is often mistaken for maple.
The distinction between hardwood and softwood is a poor one and really is between angiosperms and gymnosperms.
Beech is an important and widely used hardwood in europe.
Hardwood is more difficult to saw drill and nail than other woods requiring more time and labor which translates into a greater expense.
Softwood is the wood produced from trees that have needles or cones instead of leaves.
This wood differs from hardwood by its way of water transportation inside the tree it s structure is simpler than the structure of hardwood.
Softwood is represented by cedar pine fir redwood spruce.
Beech trees can survive in the understory for years.
Combine this with loggers around where we live tending to leave beech and it s easy to develop a stand of almost pure beech.