On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:41:03 -0700, Mason Pan
wrote:

Okoume is hardwood .
Hardwood means "wood from broad-leaved or deciduous species of trees
(not necessarily hard or dense)" .

Balsa is a hardwood. Yellow pine is evergreen and the wood is quite
hard for a pine, of interest if you make tables or floors, and not
meaning jack **** for framing. The confusion begins with the simple
fact that among kinds of lumber pretty much all the hardwoods for sale
are in fact harder than the softwoods for sale. All wood is not
commercial lumber. There is balsa and there is ironwood, which doesn't
float in water.You don't finder either at a lumber yard.

Casady