Question

What do hardwood and softwood stand for?

Answer 1

Distinguish between softwood and hardwood is as

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Softwood}& \text{Hardwood}\\ \text{Gymnospermic wood is soft wood}& \text{Angiospermic wood is hard wood}\\ \text{It chiefly contains trachieds}& \text{It chiefly contain both trachieds and vessels}\\ \text{Vessels are absent.}& \text{Trachieds are absent.}\end{array}$