1 A fallen coast redwood will often send up new shoots, growing new trees off of its trunk. This is called a candelabra tree.  Redwoods and giant sequoias were used to build many of the original buildings in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento in the latter 1800s.
gossypol. n. 1. (Biochemistry) a toxic crystalline pigment that is a constituent of cottonseed oil. [C19: from Modern Latin gossypium cotton plant + -ol 1 ].
any of various herbaceous plants and shrubs of the malvaceous genus Gossypium, such as sea-island cotton, cultivated in warm climates for the fibre surrounding the seeds and the oil within the seeds. the soft white downy fibre of these plants: used to manufacture textiles. cotton plants collectively, as a cultivated crop.