Description

Licorice is growing in the North Of Afghanistan on the high water-meadows and step lowlands. As a meadow plant licorice enters meadow associations. Couch meadows are more typical (with couch creeping) or sharped meadows where licorice plays role of one of the dominated sort.

Average licorice height in the North Afghanistan is *0 sm. Root system consists of core and additional roots, vertical and horizontal rhizomes. Diameter of main roots is 3,5 - 4 sm. Though licorice roots in licorice community of the Amo River is **7 meters deep, general mass of underground organs is in upper soil from *0 - *0 % of the whole root mass. There are 9,1 – *6,1% glycyrrhizin acid in licorice roots.