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 ].
Conidia on conidiophores. A hypha (plural hyphae, from Greek á½ÏÎ®, huphá¸, âwebâ) is a long, branching filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium. In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively called a mycelium.Yeasts are unicellular fungi that do not grow as hyphae. Aseptate or coenocytic (without septa). 2  Non-septate hyphae are associated with Mucor, some zygomycetes, and other fungi.  3 Pseudohyphae are distinguished from true hyphae by their method of growth, relative frailty and lack of cytoplasmic connection between the cells.