Ash is a hardwood along with cherry oak walnut and maple.
Is ash a hardwood tree.
If it s a hardwood that means it came from a dicot tree typically a broad leafed variety of tree.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
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.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Green ash and black ash trees are preferentially attacked by the insects followed by white ash and blue ash.
If it s a softwood it came from a gymnosperm tree typically a conifer.
Other soft hardwoods.
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.