What are the characteristics of licorice's growth habits?
Licorice, also known as "sweet grass seedling", is a perennial herbaceous medicinal plant. Licorice prefers an ecological environment with ample sunlight, low rainfall, scorching summers, severe cold winters and large day-night temperature differences, and has the characteristics of being light-loving, drought-tolerant, heat-tolerant, salt-alkali-tolerant and cold-tolerant. It is suitable for growing in sandy soil that is deep, loose and well-drained. Licorice seeds have a thick and hard seed coat with poor water permeability, making them difficult to germinate; seed treatment is required before sowing, and the treatment method is to use coarse sand and a rice mill to abrade the seed coat, making it rough and increasing water permeability.