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Lima beans are lima beans, which are large, flat, off-white, kidney-shaped edible seeds in the leguminous family, also commonly called cotton beans, and are a delicious bean.

Lima beans generally refer to cotton beans. Cotton beans are plants of the genus Phaseolus in the Leguminosae family. They are annual or perennial twining herbs. The stems are hairless or puberulent, and the pinnate leaves have 3 leaflets.