What is “white wood”?

[Packard]

Lowes sells pin in various grades.  They also sell “white wood”.

The white wood appears to have a finer grain, none or nearly no knots.

But what is it?  It is cheaper than pine.

 

[six-point socket II]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liriodendron_tulipifera

EDIT: I'm wrong.

Kind regards,
Oliver

 

[peter halle]

The whitewood that I have encountered at the big box stores in my local are some sort of cheap fast grown conifer species.  Also in my use history, most likely to bend and twist when exposed to natural sunlight.  I avoid when at all possible.

Peter

 

[Cheese]

The whitewood that I have encountered at the big box stores in my local are some sort of cheap fast grown conifer species.  Also in my use history, most likely to bend and twist when exposed to natural sunlight.  I avoid when at all possible.

Peter

Same here Peter...at the local big boxes it's usually a mixture of various species. Spruce, pine, fir sometimes they also have yellow pine. The tip-off is the light weight as compared to a regular framing stud.

 

[Peter Kelly]

Lowes sells pin in various grades.  They also sell “white wood”.

The white wood appears to have a finer grain, none or nearly no knots.

But what is it?  It is cheaper than pine.

"White Wood" is just a category that big box retailers use for Spruce, Pine, Fir materials and if graded at all, it's usually stamped either Common or C & Better. I think it's just a Northeastern US specific term.

 

[jeffinsgf]

SPF -- Spruce, Pine or Fir. We don't know or care which. The worst of it (often the "whitest") is Larch. Doesn't even make good kindling.