What type of wood are most pencils made out of?

Question

Or are they made out of wood at all?

Answer 1

This is from a sciene and technology website: It says that today most are made in the US of incense cedar from California.

Various types of wood have been used to make pencils over the years. Red cedar from Kenya and the U.S. was an early favorite, but today nearly all pencils worldwide are made from incense cedar, a species that grows in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. The first pencils were unlabeled and unpainted to show the fine grain of the wood used. But by the 1890s, manufacturers started stamping their names on pencils and painting them.

Answer 2

Wood pencils are usually made with cedar because it can withstand the tortures of sharpening and stresses of writing without cracking or splitting.

Answer 3

Probably pine; cheap wood. Some are made with ground up wood particles or sawdust.

Answer 4

ceder.