Woody plant

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Petrified Wood from a woody plant
Petrified Wood from a woody plant

A plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems, that produce wood. In colder climates, woody plants survive colder weather above ground by just shedding leaves.

List of woody plants

Softwood
Cedar (Calocedrus, Cedrus) Cypress Douglas-fir Fir Juniper Larch Kauri Pine Rimu Spruce Yew
Hardwood
Afromosia Alder Andiroba Anigre Ash Apple Aspen Avodire Balsa Beech Bilinga Birch African Blackwood Australian Blackwood Boxwood Bubinga Camphor Cedrela Cherry Chestnut Cocobolo Cumaru Ebony Elm Eucalyptus Hazel Hickory Hornbeam Idigbo Imbuia Ipê Iroko Jarra Jelutong Lignum vitae Linden (lime, basswood) Lovoa Merbau Mahogany (American, African) Maple Meranti Oak Padauk Pear Plum Poplar Purpleheart Ovankol Ramin Red Quebracho Rosewood Rubberwood Sapele Teak Totara Utile Walnut Wenge Willow Zebrano


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