| Description | Job's Tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) i a tropical grass grown mostly for its ornamental seeds. Has also has been used as food source being eaten raw, cooked or ground into flour. |
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| Pronunciation | (COY)(Lak-ree-mah)(JOH-bee) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Grass Ornamental |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-11, annual elsewhere |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | prefers moist rich , tolerates average, resents dry |
| Soil & Site | average, rich, moist |
| Flowers | short, greyish white, drooping tassels |
| Fruit | small, 1/4 inch tear drop seeds, light green changing to whitish grayish blue or black, pendulous seedpods |
| Leaves | green |
| Dimensions | 3-6 feet tall depending on growing conditions and length of season, up right erect |
| Propagation | seeds, division |
| Native Site | subtropical Asia |
| Misc Facts | Was used a food by eating raw or cooking. Also dried and crushed into a powder and uses as flour. Believed to be one of the first grasses that was grown by Humans for ornamental purposes. AKA: Christ's Tears, Coix, Coix Seed, Tear Grass, Hato Mug, Chinese pearl barley, adlay or adlay millet, |
| Notes & Reference | #92-The Encyclopedia of Ornamental Grass (John Greenlee), #247-Flowers and Herbs of Early America |
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