Liquorice (confectionery) Liquorice (confectionery) Liquorice (British English) or licorice (American English) is a confection usually flavoured with the extract of the roots of the liquorice plant "Glycyrrhiza glabra". A wide variety of liquorice sweets are produced around the world. In North America, black licorice is distinguished from similar confectionery varieties that are not flavoured with liquorice extract but commonly manufactured in the form of chewy ropes or tubes. So called "black licorice" is also a widespread flavour in other forms of confectionery such as jellybeans. In addition to these, various other liquorice-based sweets are sold in the United Kingdom, such as liquorice
Eremophila glabra subsp. albicans gave it the name "Stenochilus albicans" and published the description in "Plantae Preissianae". The type was collected by Bartling near Fremantle. It was reduced to a subspecies of "Eremophila glabra" by Robert Chinnock in 2007. "Eremophila glabra" subsp. "albicans" occurs in coastal areas between Bunbury and Shark Bay where it grows in sandy soil on sand dunes and limestone outcrops. Eremophila glabra subsp. albicans Eremophila glabra" subsp. "albicans is a plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is similar to other shrubs in the species "Eremophila glabra" but it distinguished from them by its