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What are the characteristics of the ecological environment in which licorice grows?

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Licorice is widely distributed in the warm temperate and cold temperate continental monsoon climate zones of the arid and semi-arid regions of northern China. The suitable average annual growing temperature is between 3 and 10°C, and the altitude range is 250 to 1400 m. Licorice is an indicator plant of calcareous soils in the dry regions of China. Its requirements for soil are not very strict: it can grow in sandy loam, light loam, heavy loam and clay, and it grows best in sandy-covered loam with a sandy upper layer. Licorice has extremely strong cold resistance and drought tolerance; at an absolute minimum temperature of -47°C it still

Licorice is widely distributed in the warm temperate and cold temperate continental monsoon climate zones of the arid and semi-arid regions of northern China. The suitable average annual growing temperature is between 3 and 10°C, and the altitude range is 250 to 1400 m.

Licorice is an indicator plant of calcareous soils in the dry regions of China. Its requirements for soil are not very strict: it can grow in sandy loam, light loam, heavy loam and clay, and it grows best in sandy-covered loam with a sandy upper layer.

Licorice has extremely strong cold resistance and drought tolerance. At an absolute minimum temperature of -47°C it still grows, flowers and sets seed the following year; at a maximum temperature of 47.6°C and with only 16.6 mm of precipitation, as in the Turpan Basin, Glycyrrhiza inflata (Chinese licorice) can also grow normally.

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