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 ].
Noteworthy Characteristics. Gossypium herbaceum, commonly called Levant cotton, is a perennial shrub of the mallow family that grows to 6â tall. It is an Old World or Asiatic cotton with short staple-length fibre that is native to northern Africa, Asia Minor and India.