Hardwood

Hardwood furniture is often sold through wholesale companies like Artisan furniture. They sell products such as tables, chairs, beds, dressers and more to people looking to buy furniture in bulk so they can resell them online or at local markets for a profit. They also sell unfinished furniture that customers can finish themselves with stain or paint.

Hardwood is a hard, durable wood that can be used for furniture making and flooring. It is usually made from the trunk of a tree, but it can also be made from branches and roots. Hardwoods are typically more expensive than softwoods, which are made from coniferous trees.

Dicot trees provide hardwood. These are typically found in forests with broad leaves, both temperate and tropical. [1] They are primarily deciduous in temperate and boreal latitudes but primarily evergreen in the tropics and subtropics. In contrast to softwood, which derives from angiosperm trees (which is from gymnosperm trees).

Angiosperm trees, which have large leaves and flower reproduction, produce hardwoods. There are several deciduous species.  While tropical regions’ trees may lose their leaves in reaction to seasonal or intermittent bouts of drought, temperate zone trees do so every autumn as temperatures drop and go dormant in the winter. Annual growth rings are typically visible in hardwood from deciduous species, such as oak, but they may not be in other tropical hardwoods.

Hardwoods grow more slowly than softwoods because of their more complicated structural makeup. The presence of pores or vessels distinguishes “hardwoods” from “softwoods” as its defining characteristic. The vessels may differ significantly in size, perforation plate morphology (simple, scalariform, reticulate, or foraminate), and cell wall structure, including spiral thickenings.

Although there are notable exceptions, as the name implies, the wood from these trees is often harder than that of softwoods. The actual hardness of wood varies greatly between the two groups, with the density range in hardwoods fully encompassing that of softwoods. Some hardwoods, like balsa, are softer than most softwoods, whereas yew is an example of a hard softwood.