Job's tears - World Crops Database

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