Virtues of Ash firewood...

[Al_Smith]

 :D Don't pay any attention to the swamp  mule he'd argue anything ----

Cut and paste --Populus deltoides (eastern cottonwood) is one of the largest North American hardwood trees, /end

So there ha ha ha won again . ;D

[SwampDonkey]

Oh ok, the space makes a difference.  :D

I can tell ya, up here we don't call aspen a hardwood. So, ipso fatso cottonwood. In any dendro book I have, including Harlow, Harrar and White Textbook of Dendrology it is never called a hardwood. It is called an eastern poplar (including the aspens). Further, in my Native Trees of Canada dendro book under the heading Habitat, yellow birch, sugar maple, and beech  "are characteristic trees of hardwood stands in the Deciduous Forest region, Great Lakes St. Lawrence, and the Acadian Forest regions."

I think the confusion comes when we talk about lumber and other products versus the tree. The stuff is grouped hardwood vs softwood to ID and grade lumber. Don't blame me. :D

[Al_Smith]

 :D Well see there you go again thinking like a Canadian .

Okay I'll admit it's soft already and so is basswood if it will make you feel better .Did you know though that southern yellow pine is a hardwood ?

Who knew, started off with ash and ended up with this .Canadian maple and just about everything else except pussy willow which might be next .

[tyb525]

SYP is a hardwood?? I never got that memo. I think you mean hard wood. It is very hard, for a conifer.