Semi hardwood softwood and hardwood.
Is rosewood hardwood or softwood.
A hardwood is extracted from a broad leafed tree i e no needles and include mahogany oak teak birch walnut ash beech poplar rosewood elm etc.
The back or the shell is assembled from thin strips of hardwood maple cherry ebony rosewood gran wood and or other tonewoods.
Not to get too scientific but specifically hardwood trees are angiosperms plants that produce seeds with some sort of covering.
Many trees are softwood.
It is a characteristic of the woody dead layer of a tree.
Classifying wood as either a hardwood or softwood comes down to its physical structure and makeup and so it is overly simple to think of hardwoods as being hard and durable compared to soft and workable softwoods.
A rosewood by another name pau ferro also known as santos rosewood or bolivian rosewood is a beautiful wood.
Solid woods fit into two categories.
A softwood is not a type of tree.