What Trees Make Paper?

Paper can be made from every type of tree there is. The paper is only made by taking the pulpwood (more commonly known as tree pulp) from the tree in chips from the bark.

There are trees that are most commonly used in papermaking and they are both hardwood and softwood timber. Softwood trees include the likes of American chestnut, royal paulownia and cottonwood. Hardwood trees include the likes of spruce, fir, pine, yew and cedar.

It is known that around 17 trees will make about a ton of writing or printing paper. This is obviously only an estimate because it all depends on the size and the age of the tree.



Paper also comes from plants. It is the same as trees. The same fibres comes from plants and its taken the same way except without having to get through the bark.