Softwood comes from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce.
Pine hardwood or soft wood.
Popular softwoods include spruce douglas fir red pine cedar cypress and larch.
Pine is not a hardwood.
With few exceptions you can generally assume that woods from a softwood tree will be less dense than woods from a hardwood tree.
This is not always the case but there are not many exceptions.
From angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots the hardwood is formed by these while from gymnosperm trees usually evergreen conifers like pine or spruce the softwood is formed.
It comes from a coniferous tree which is one that has needles instead of leaves and is green all year round in other words an evergreen.
Evergreens and conifers are softwoods and are easily identified by their distinctive needles and that good old pine aroma.
Hardwood comes from angiosperm or flowering plants such as oak maple or walnut that are not monocots.
Generally speaking softwoods pine fir etc grow much faster than hardwood species and typically this results in a relatively softer wood.
Pine is considered a softwood.