Midwest and northeast united states.
Bigtooth aspen hardwood or softwood.
Aspen is excellent for mouldings toys and caskets.
It is fine grained uniform in texture and generally lacks a distinctive pattern.
Closely related to poplar.
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In terms of texture its grain is fine with diffuse pores.
Aspen wood is white and soft but fairly strong.
Aspen has creamy white sapwood with heartwood that changes from brown to greyish white without any visible transition.
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.
This happens to be generally true but there are exceptions such as in the cases of wood from yew trees a softwood that is relatively hard and wood from balsa trees a.
Aspen bigtooth aspen populus grandidentata.
Aspen is commonly harvested as lumber and is used for pulpwood in paper manufacture.
Aspen is a great all purpose wood and good for beginner woodworkers.
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This wood species is not listed in the cites appendices or on the iucn red list of threatened species.