They'll burn all right.
I got a load of cutoffs of azobe ( african ironwood) some years ago. What I couldn't use for turning, went into the wood furnace that heats my house. Talk about BTUs.
The english speakers way of dividing wood into Hard and softwood is a bit strange, since (as far as I know!) hardwood is from trees with leaves and softwood from trees with needles.
So softwood is not necessarily soft. Think of Yew or Huron pine, or for that matter Bristlecone pine, those are...
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