Job’s Tears seeds Coix lacryma-jobi Tear Grass adlay seed adlai

LATIN NAME: Coix lacryma-jobi

COMMON NAME: Job’s Tears

The Job’s tears holds its drooping, beaded, hard, shiny seeds among the broad, corn-like leaves, and the small, greenish flowers open in the spikes. The tall, upright, annual grass carries the broad, strap-shaped, corn-like leaves and the dense, cylindrical, greenish flower spikes through the warm season, one of the fine, generous sights of the warm garden, to be followed by the drooping clusters of the round, hard, glossy, grey-white or brown seeds, each with the small, bead-like hole, like the natural beads. The seeds have a very long record as the fine, hardy grain and the natural beads of the old tables and the craft boxes, and the grass is a fine, historic presence of the warm garden. It is a grass of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The Job’s tears is a historic subject of the plant science, and the bead-like seeds keep showing up in the work on the hardy grains. The way the round, hard, glossy, grey-white or brown seeds form the small, bead-like hole has been studied at length, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the hardy grains, the bead-producing grasses and the members of the grass family. The broad, corn-like leaves and the upright habit have also made it a fine study grass, and the Job’s tears is a regular subject of the work on the bead-like seeds of the warm world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The Job’s tears is a fine, generous grass of the warm garden and the study collection. The round, hard, glossy, grey-white or brown seeds have a very long record as the fine, hardy grain and the natural beads of the old tables and the craft boxes, the hulled seeds coming to the porridges and the soups of the old kitchens, and the beads strung into the necklaces and the curtains of the old rooms, while the dense, cylindrical, greenish flower spikes rise through the warm season. It is one of the fine choices for the warm garden, the craft patch and the study collection, and it has been written up in the culinary and the botanical papers for the bead-like seeds and the very long history. It is a fine, generous grass of the open, sunny, deep, moist, well-drained garden.

Give the young plants the deep, moist bed, and the bead-like seeds will come in the first warm season.

To grow the Job’s tears from seed, sow the round, hard, glossy seeds a little under the surface in the row of fine, moist soil, keep the row in a bright, open spot and water gently. The seedlings are up within a week or two and grow on fast. With the sun and the deep, moist, well-drained ground, the bead-like seeds will come in the first warm season.

It is a beautiful tender perennial grass that is usually grown as an annual. The plant gets unique shiny white to grey teardrop shaped seeds and great green foliage. These beautiful plants grow best in full sun to part shade. They would make excellent additions to your rare plant collection, or just make a unique statement in your yard.

Scientific Name: Coix lachryma-jobi. Common name: 'Job's Tears, but in Belize it is usually called 'Indian Beads'. This is a tall, ornamental tropical grass that is related to corn, and the relationship is easy to see. Prized for the seed heads, which are ornamental on the plant and used in arrangements. The teardrop-shaped seeds may be white or grey, glossy, and make excellent beads.

It is also used alongside other herbs in traditional Chinese medicine.