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Hardwood
Hardwood
is
wood
from
dicot
angiosperm
trees
. The term may also be used for the trees from which the wood is derived; these are usually broad-leaved temperate and
tropical forests
. In
temperate
and
boreal
latitudes
they are mostly
deciduous
, but in
tropics
and
subtropics
mostly
evergreen
. Hardwood contrasts with
softwood
(which is from
gymnosperm
trees).
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