Job's tears - Photo by Forest and Kim Starr
Job’s tears is a tropical plant in the grasses family which is sometimes used as a cereal. It is also sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.
In China it is used together with other herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.
Other names for this crop include coixseed, tear grass, and adlay.
Job’s tears is native to Southeast Asia but is now also grown in the USA and tropical south and central America.
Names
Scientific
Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen
English
Adlai
Adlay
Chinese pearl barley
Coixseed
Job's tears
Tear grass
Dutch
Coix
Spanish
Lágrimas de Job
Lágrimas de San Pedro
French
Herbe à chapelets
Larme-de-Job
Larmille
German
Hiobsträne
Hiobstränengras
Italian
Lacrime di Giobbe
Taxonomy
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Coix
Species
Coix lacryma-jobi var. ma-yuen (Job's tears)
Crop categories
Cereals
Medicinal plants
Minor crops
Ornamental plants
Subtropical crops
Tropical crops
Pictures
Job's tears - Photo by Forest and Kim Starr
Job's tears - Photo by Forest and Kim Starr
Coix seed - Photo by Joe Wu
Coix seed - Photo by Joe Wu
Job's tears - Photo by Daniel Sancho
One thought on “Job’s tears”
Just curious but is this crop or its wild ancestor native all across southeast asia including the Papuan islands?, and if not are there any coix grass species that are?