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 hirsutum is the most common cotton plant in the United States. Another species, G. barbadense grows in the islands of South America and in Egypt. In Asia, G. herbaceum is the main producer of cotton, along with G. arboreum, according to Fact Monster. Cotton plants are medium-sized, loosely-branching shrubs.