Ash is a hardwood along with cherry oak walnut and maple.
Is ash a hardwood tree.
Ash machines well is good in nailing screwing and gluing and can be stained to a very good finish.
White ash has excellent shock resistance and along with hickory carya spp it is one of the most commonly used hardwoods for tool handles in north america particularly in shovels and hammers where toughness and impact resistance.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
Green ash and black ash trees are preferentially attacked by the insects followed by white ash and blue ash.
Ash is a hardwood and is hard dense within 20 of 670 kg m 3 for fraxinus americana and higher at 710 kg m 3 for fraxinus excelsior tough and very strong but elastic extensively used for making bows tool handles baseball bats hurleys and other uses demanding high strength and resilience.
If it s a softwood it came from a gymnosperm tree typically a conifer.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Most hardwood trees are deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually like elm or maple.