Are mulberry trees hard or soft wood?

Answer 1

Nope, mulberry tree are not only a hardwood, but they are among the hardest of hardwoods. See reference listed below for verification.

Answer 2

Mulberry Tree Wood

Answer 3

Mulberry Wood

Answer 4

Mulberry tree, hardwood.
Black mulberry produces delicious plump black juicy edible fruit. White mulberry produces leaves for silkworms to eat. Both species have hard heavy golden brown timber used for marquetry, inlay work and veneer oysters. The standing trees however usually have such heritage and amenity value that they are unlikely to ever be cut down for timber. Black mulberries develop a spreading head of tangled branches and vine like leaves. They often lean or even recline to one side in old age (300 years or more). Originally from West Asia, this species is said to have been in Britain since the sixteenth century.

As it turns out, a hardwood is not necessarily a harder material (more dense) and a softwood is not necessarily a softer material (less dense). For example, balsa wood is one of the lightest, least dense woods there is, and it's considered a hardwood.
The distinction between hardwood and softwood actually has to do with plant reproduction. All trees reproduce by producing seeds, but the seed structure varies. Hardwood trees are angiosperms, plants that produce seeds with some sort of covering. This might be a fruit, such as an apple, or a hard shell, such as an acorn.

Softwoods, on the other hand, are gymnosperms. These plants let seeds fall to the ground as is, with no covering. Pine trees, which grow seeds in hard cones, fall into this category. In conifers like pines, these seeds are released into the wind once they mature. This spreads the plant's seed over a wider area.

For the most part, angiosperm trees lose their leaves during cold weather while gymnosperm trees keep their leaves all year round. So, it's also accurate to say evergreens are softwoods and deciduous trees are hardwoods.

The hardwood/softwood terminology does make some sense. Evergreens do tend to be less dense than deciduous trees, and therefore easier to cut, while most hardwoods tend to be more dense, and therefore sturdier. But, as the classification of balsa wood demonstrates, there is no minimum weight requirement to become a hardwood.

Answer 5

The differentiation given about angiosperms vs. gymnosperms is correct. But there has been a little misinformation mixed in. Tropical rainforests are composed almost exclusively of angiosperms (hardwoods), or completely of hardwoods (but I might be mistaken there. But, as most people are aware, tropical rainforests are evergreen forests because the trees never lose all their leaves. The term evergreen is a less accurate way of describing gymnosperms than is the term "conifer", as virtually all gymnosperms produce their seeds in cones which then release the seeds. Also, the feature of gymnosperms that earned them the term softwood is the change in density of the earlywood vs. the late wood. In hardwoods the wood generally has a more even texture between wood produced when it is rainy and wood produced when it is dry. Finally, as virtually all of the other answerers stated, Mulberry, as a fruit-producing tree, angiosperm, is a hardwood.

Answer 6

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Answer 10

In the event that it's a fruit it includes seeds, otherwise it's a vegetable. And vegetables are usually grown in the ground while fruits are grown in trees.