Steve Pope wrote:
> Yes, butter beans are AFAIK lima beans.
>
> From the text and photo on the above link, "Italian Butter Beans" do
> not resemble lima beans. In the photo, they look sorta like
> Gigandes beans.
>
> On the Phipps page, Gigandes and Italian Butter Beans
> look nearly identical in size and appearance, whereas Eastern
> Cannellinis are smaller and Great Northerns, yet smaller.
>
> Whereas the Florida Speckled Butter Bean is listed as a type
> of lima bean.
>
> Steve
>


Green lima beans are not my favorite, but I do like butter beans. The
butter beans I eat look like this, they are about an inch long and they
do not taste like lima beans to me. If they do, then I will give lima
beans another try.


http://comps.fotosearch.com/comp/FDC...ns_~920907.jpg



Becca