About Job's tear grass
Job's tears (Coix lacryma-jobi), also known as adlay or adlay millet, is a tall grain-bearing perennial tropical plant of the family Poaceae (grass family). It is native to Southeast Asia and introduced to Northern China and India in remote antiquity, and elsewhere cultivated in gardens as an annual. It has been naturalized in the southern United States and the New World tropics. In its native environment it is grown at higher elevation areas where rice and corn do not grow well. Job's tears are also commonly sold as Chinese pearl barley, though true barley belongs to a completely different genus. There are two main varieties of the species, one wild and one cultivated. The wild variety, Coix lacryma-jobi var.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Coix lacryma-jobi
- Genus
- Coix
- Family
- POACEAE
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Marshy areas
- Native to
- Tropical Africa
- Distribution
- Tropics of the World
- Flowering & fruiting
- August-June
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Local Names
- Hindi
- संक्रू Samkru, संकलू Sanklu, गुर्लू Gurlu
- Nepali
- भिरगौंडी
- Bengali
- গুৰগুৰ Gurgur
- Tamil
- காட்டு குந்துமணி Kattu kundumani
- Telugu
- Adavi guruginja
- Kannada
- Manjutti, ಅಶ್ರು ಬೀಜ Ashru bija
- Malayalam
- Kattugotampu, കാട്ടുഗോതമ്പ്
- Marathi
- रान जोंधळा Ran Jondhala, रानमका Ran-maka, Kasai
Poaceae
Grass family
Job's tear grass belongs to the Poaceae family.
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