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 ].
Gossypium. 1  Includes G. hirsutum (Gossypium arboreum, G. barbadense, G. herbaceum), the commercial cotton plant of the family Malvaceae. 2  Cotton seeds are a residue of the cotton industry and, after extraction of the oil, the residual cottonseed cake is much valued as a protein supplement for livestock.