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Detailed Explanation of the Botanical Morphological Characteristics of Licorice

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The licorice plant is 50-150 cm tall, with a thick, cylindrical root that often grows horizontally and tastes sweet. The outer bark is reddish-brown or dark brown. The stem is upright, mostly woody in the lower part, and the whole plant is covered with short white soft hairs. The odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate, with 7-17 pairs of leaflets that are ovate-elliptic, entire, and covered on both sides with glandular scales and white hairs. The raceme is axillary, the calyx is bell-shaped, and the corolla is papilionaceous, purplish-red or blue-purple. The pods are mostly densely clustered in a spherical arrangement; a single pod is sometimes curved into a sickle shape, brown, densely covered with prickly glandular hairs, and contains 6-8 seeds, sometimes 2,

The licorice plant is 50-150 cm tall, with a thick, cylindrical root that often grows horizontally and tastes sweet. The outer bark is reddish-brown or dark brown. The stem is upright, mostly woody in the lower part, and the whole plant is covered with short white soft hairs. The odd-pinnate compound leaves are alternate, with 7-17 pairs of leaflets that are ovate-elliptic, entire, and covered on both sides with glandular scales and white hairs. The raceme is axillary, the calyx is bell-shaped, and the corolla is papilionaceous, purplish-red or blue-purple. The pods are mostly densely clustered in a spherical arrangement; a single pod is sometimes curved into a sickle shape, brown, densely covered with prickly glandular hairs, and contains 6-8 seeds, sometimes 2; the seeds are flat, ovate-round, and brown.

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