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Well according to the visual food, and food companion the lima bean is also a butter bean, but there are Fordhook, which is not a big baby lima bean. There are multiple varieties of the lima beans from Europe, which came from Peru over some 7000 years ago. Fava beans also known as a broad bean. So the lima bean is a butter bean, and if you have eaten broad beans they are the same as a fava bean. Still confused, so am I even after reading from these two sources, the stuff I found on the net still leaves it up in the air.