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Wild licorice flowerhead, at 8,400 ft (2,600 m) in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Glycyrrhiza lepidota (American licorice) is a species of Glycyrrhiza (a genus in the pea/bean family, Fabaceae) native to most of North America, from central Canada south through the United States to California, Texas and Virginia, but absent from the southeastern states.
Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: / ˈ l ɪ k ər ɪ ʃ,-ɪ s / LIK-ər-ish, -iss) [1] is a confection usually flavoured and coloured black with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. A variety of liquorice sweets are produced around the world.
Liquorice (Commonwealth English) or licorice (American English; see spelling differences; IPA: / ˈ l ɪ k ər ɪ ʃ,-ɪ s / LIK-ər-ish, -iss) [5] [6] is the common name of Glycyrrhiza glabra, a flowering plant of the bean family Fabaceae, from the root of which a sweet, aromatic flavouring is extracted.
Red Vines. Red Vines is a brand of red licorice candy manufactured in Union City, California by the American Licorice Company.Red Vines Original Red Twists are also sometimes referred to as red licorice despite containing no licorice root.
Glycyrrhiza echinata Fruits and Seeds - MHNT Plant as used in Chinese herbology (crude medicine). Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family (), with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas.
Wild liquorice or wild licorice typically refers to any of three plants: Liquorice milk-vetch , a European species Astragalus glycyphyllos Small spikenard , a North American species Aralia nudicaulis
Galium lanceolatum, commonly known as lanceleaf wild licorice or Torrey's wild licorice, is a species of flowering plant native to the eastern temperate regions of North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The name 'wild licorice' comes from the species' taste, similar to that of true licorice (genus Glycyrrhiza ).
One of the sweets in the modern-day allsorts mix is a liquorice figure shaped like Bertie. The Doctor Who television serial episode The Happiness Patrol featured a villain called the Kandy Man, who was made from liquorice allsorts and was thought by some to resemble Bertie Bassett.