Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
Is black spruce a hardwood.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
When you see 2x4 lumber in house building it is usually spruce.
The most productive black spruce stands are found on the better drained sites such as sandy glacial deposits river terraces and outwash plains of the order entisols usually in association with hardwood species.
Easy to work as long as there are no knots present.
Black spruce has a fine even texture and a consistently straight grain.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.
Spruce are evergreen trees in the genus picea.
Their wood is classified as softwood based on its characteristics.
They range in height from 65 to 200 feet tall and are common in boreal forests.
Black spruce is typically a creamy white with a hint of yellow.
Heartwood is rated as being slightly resistant to non resistant to decay.
Spruce wood is soft and light it is marketed with pine and balsam fir as lumber because they are similar in hardness and strength.