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
Ulmus 'Fastigiata Glabra' the Wentworth Elm); the current list of Living Accessions held in the Garden "per se" does not list the plant. A largish-leaved glabrous elm on The Mound, Edinburgh (2016) matches the 1958 RBGE herbarium leaf-specimen of "U. montana fastigiata glabra" (see External links below) and may be an example of the cultivar. None known. Ulmus 'Fastigiata Glabra' The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Fastigiata Glabra' was distributed by the Späth nursery, Berlin, in the 1890s and early 1900s as "U. montana fastigiata glabra". Späth used "U. montana" both for wych elm and for "U." × "hollandica" hybrids like 'Dampieri', so the name