stave wood vs flowering tree

stave wood and flowering tree both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stave wood	Yes	No	No	No
flowering tree	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, flowering tree is a hypernym of stave wood; that is, flowering tree is a word with a broader meaning than stave wood:

Other hypernyms of stave wood include angiospermous tree.

stave wood (noun)	flowering tree (noun)
large tree of Australasia	any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary