When you see 2x4 lumber in house building it is usually spruce.
Is black spruce a hardwood.
In the north black spruce sites are commonly underlain by permafrost perennially frozen soils.
Spruce wood is soft and light it is marketed with pine and balsam fir as lumber because they are similar in hardness and strength.
Softwood comes from a conifer cone bearing or evergreen trees such as pine or spruce.
Their wood is classified as softwood based on its characteristics.
The most productive black spruce stands are found on the better drained sites such as sandy glacial deposits river terraces and outwash plains of the order entisols usually in association with hardwood species.
They range in height from 65 to 200 feet tall and are common in boreal forests.
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Heartwood is rated as being slightly resistant to non resistant to decay.
Black spruce is typically a creamy white with a hint of yellow.
The texture and density of the wood a tree produces puts it in either the hardwood or softwood category.
Spruce are evergreen trees in the genus picea.
Easy to work as long as there are no knots present.