So let's get nerdy. A hardwood is technically wood from a flowering tree. When you sprout a seed from a hardwood tree, it will have 2 leaves, and is called a dicot. Softwood trees are...Just look at this. https://www.diffen.com/difference/Hardwood_vs_Softwood
Bamboo is not on there because it is not wood. Grasses are monocots. When a grass seed sprouts, there is only one leaf and there are parallel veins in that leaf, just like corn, another monocot. In the flooring dept, they will place bamboo with the hardwoods because it has been engineered to be hard with added resins and other materials as it it laminated. It's a great thing, it's just not wood! That is part of what makes it desirable... it is much better on the environment to make things from fast growing bamboo than slow growing, hard to replace, large hardwood trees.
The Nerd has spoken!
Bamboo is not on there because it is not wood. Grasses are monocots. When a grass seed sprouts, there is only one leaf and there are parallel veins in that leaf, just like corn, another monocot. In the flooring dept, they will place bamboo with the hardwoods because it has been engineered to be hard with added resins and other materials as it it laminated. It's a great thing, it's just not wood! That is part of what makes it desirable... it is much better on the environment to make things from fast growing bamboo than slow growing, hard to replace, large hardwood trees.
The Nerd has spoken!
