In article >,
Logan Shaw > wrote:

> George Shirley wrote:
> > Or any recipe for "butter beans" as limas are called in the south.
>
> Are butter beans really the same thing as limas? I thought they
> were different....... [...]

Not technically the same. The term is used kind of like "broad beans" I
think. I can't recall the taxonomy but, in my experience, butter beans
are a different species. The ones we've grown are kind of brownish, not
green like limas. And btw, fresh Blue Lake string beans are among my
favorites too.

Emma