Cedar Hardwood Tree

It is a lovely tree that provide nice shade but it is also very hardy in adverse conditions tolerating both drought and wet soil.

Cedar hardwood tree.

It has been commonly used as a street tree in the desert southwest due to its ability to survive in difficult soil types with very little care. The cedar elm serves dual purposes. Hardwood comes from deciduous leaf bearing trees. In tree form it is more commonly called eastern redcedar while the wood itself is usually referred to as aromatic red cedar.

Since clear wood is hard to come by most eastern red cedar boards carry the common grading label and a fairly inexpensive price of about 1 50 per board foot. Native to the atlas mountains of morocco the atlas cedar is slow to moderate growing species. Though eastern redcedar trees are widely distributed throughout the eastern half of the united states it is a very slow growing species and most trees harvested tend to be fairly small in diameter. The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.

Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple. Although it s a softwood hardwood grading standards apply because eastern red cedar is used primarily as a cabinet wood. Also to know is red cedar a hardwood or softwood. Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.

The other traits that make this tree different from its counterparts are its wide pyramidal shape with a silhouette wide and open and.