Difference in hardwoods and sapwoods?

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Difference in hardwoods and sapwoods?

Answer 1

did you mean heartwood and sapwood?  Heartwood is the inner part of the tree usually darker(considered dead).  Sapwood is the ouetpart of the tree that is living,  lighter in color.

Answer 2

Hardwood is from broadleaf trees and softwood is from conifers. The following is a copy and paste so you will need to paraphrase the information and put it in your own words or you will get an F for your answer to it:

"The difference between softwood and hardwood is found in the microscopic structure of the wood. Softwood contains only two types of cells, longitudinal wood fibers (or tracheids) and transverse ray cells. Softwoods lack vessel elements for water transport that hardwoods have; these vessels manifest in hardwoods as pores. In softwood water transport within the tree is via the tracheids only."

All you really need is that first line "the difference is in the microscopic structure of the wood" and to mention one is from broadleaf trees, the hardwood, and the other from conifers, the softwood.

Unless you mean heartwood and sapwood. More stuff here to paraphrase that should be helpful:

"Heartwood is wood that has died and become resistant to decay as a result of genetically programmed processes. It appears in a cross-section as a discolored circle, following annual rings in shape. Heartwood is usually much darker than living wood, and forms with age. Many woody plants do not form heartwood, but other processes, such as decay, can discolor wood in similar ways, leading to confusion. Some uncertainty still exists as to whether heartwood is truly dead, as it can still chemically react to decay organisms, but only once (Shigo 1986, 54).

"Sapwood is living wood in the growing tree. All wood in a tree is first formed as sapwood. Its principal functions are to conduct water from the roots to the leaves and to store up and give back according to the season the food prepared in the leaves. The more leaves a tree bears and the more vigorous its growth, the larger the volume of sapwood required. Hence trees making rapid growth in the open have thicker sapwood for their size than trees of the same species growing in dense forests. Sometimes trees grown in the open may become of considerable size, 30 cm or more in diameter, before any heartwood begins to form, for example, in second-growth hickory, or open-grown pines."

I'd paraphrase that. Again, all you really need is the first sentence of each of those two paragraphs. Conjoin the first two sentences with the use of the word "whereas" between them and possibly a comma. Hate for you to lose points due to punctuation. All one sentence.

Answer 3

As mentioned by others we are talking hardwoods and softwoods. Softwoods grow at a much faster rate than hardwoods. That is why softwoods are used in construction in homes. Hardwoods take longer to grow and are used mainly in building fine furniture.

Answer 4

The word is softwoods not sapwoods.  Hardwood trees are your Oaks, Ash, Maples, Lindens and so forth.  Softwood trees are Pines.   All trees have sap.