"jmcquown" > wrote in message
...
> Janet Bostwick wrote:
>> "Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Okay folks,
>>>
>>> We were chatting on the chat channel, and we started talking bout
>>> butter beans. I grew up in VA, and I had them all the time. To me,
>>> they are smaller than a lima, and a pale green. And they stay that
>>> way when they are cooked. Boli agrees with this description of them.
>>>
>>> Others in the discussion say they are much larger, and tan. Or buff
>>> or khaki colored.
>>>
>>> I have never seen butter beans like that...
>>>
>>> For those of you who know about butter beans, what is your
>>> description
>>> of them?
>>>
>>> Christine
>>
>> Canned butterbeans are tan. I always thought that lima beans were
>> the fresh lima bean and therefore green. I thought the butterbeans
>> were the dried lima, cooked, and therefore tan. They aren't fava
>> beans, the shape isn't right.
>> Janet
>
> I grew lima beans (oddly enough) as a child in Virginia. They were green
> until I let them dry out, then they were whiteish. Butterbeans are larger
> and not the same thing at all and yes, the canned ones are big and tan or
> buttery looking.
>
> Jill
>
>
Here is the Burpee seed page for limas. The green lima beans come in
several sizes. There is also an entry for butter limas that according to
the picture have pale tan (in this case speckled) seeds. Who knew?
http://tinyurl.com/cl3h4
Janet