butter beans

[tinkertontom]

why are butter beans so called and how do they grow,are they called butterbeans before they are dried

[shaneystar2]

Butter Beans (so called because of their pale creamy colour) are a large flat variety of the lima bean which originated from Lima in Peru .. I think they grow as a bush or twine up canes .

[nickmo]

blah blah blah beans blah blah blah website blah blah blah like Lima beans, same family, blah blah blah grows on a pole or bush blah blah blah see: http://www.uga.edu/vegetable/limas.html for tons of info about yer butter beans and others in the same family.

Enjoy the read!

[Gef]

nickmo, blah blah blah nothing blah blah blah there blah blah blah about blah blah blah the blah blah blah name.

[nickmo]

Hi Gef: Extract from page link:

CROP HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
Lima beans and butter beans are native to Central America, mainly Guatemala and southern Mexico. These crops were spread throughout other regions and into North America along trade routes. The large seeded lima beans date back to 5000 to 6000 BC along the coast of South America toward Peru. The small seeded butter bean dates back to 300 to 500 BC in Mexico and Guatemala. blah blah blah cos it goes on a bit and gets all technical.......

And heres 92 butter bean recipes in case you get the urge..: http://www.astray.com/recipes/?search=butter+beans

Happy St Patricks Day!!

[Gef]

Sorry nickmo, I've read the article but still can't find out where the name (butter beans) comes from.

Anyway, I liked your blah blah blah description of the article which is why I copied it.

Hope you are having a good St. Patrick's day.

[nickmo]

Gef - the butter bean name is the American for Lima bean, sopresume it comes form the creamy texture of the bean as a description. Done a bit more trolling about the name and can't seem to get a definitive either.

This is the best offered: http://www.ecofair.co.uk/nuke/modules.php?name=Encyclopedia&op=content&tid=63 and just says its cos they are pale!