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