Vaijayanti Plant

Scientific Name: Coix lacryma-jobi

Common Name: Job's-tears, Gurgur, Gurlu, Gavedhuka, Ran Jamdhlo, Chaning, Ashru Bija, Kahudo.

Hindi : गुर्लू Gurlu

Sanskrit : गवेधुका Gavedhuka

Coix lacryma-jobi is a grass indigenous to Southern and Eastern Asia that has been introduced in tropical and warm temperate regions as a cereal, fodder and forage crop, and for its attractive grains which are used as beads for making rosaries, necklaces, and other objects.

Coix lacryma-jobi can be found growing in wet environments. It typically occurs along rivers and stream banks, in marshy valleys, wetlands, wet grasslands and pastures, edges of lakes and reservoirs; also in clearings and disturbed sites of forests, flooded cultivated fields, moist waste places, channels and roadsides ditches.