Lima bean place of origin labeled "Lima, Peru", the beans got named as such. Despite the origin of the name, when referring to the bean, the word "lima" is generally pronounced differently than the Peruvian capital. The term "butter bean" is widely used for a large, flat and yellow/white variety of lima bean ("P. lunatus" var. "macrocarpus", or "P. limensis"). In the United States Sieva-type beans are traditionally called butter beans, also otherwise known as the Dixie or Henderson type. In that area, lima beans and butter beans are seen as two distinct types of beans. In Spain, it is called "garrofón",
Nova Lima Nova Lima Nova Lima is a municipality of about 87,000 people, whose downtown is located about 20 kilometers of Belo Horizonte, the capital of the south-eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Mining is one of the main economical activities of the city, including the extraction of Iron Ore and Gold. The most famous mine in the city is Morro Velho (Old Hill), a gold mine of depth. Historically, the city was known as "Campos de Congonhas", "Congonhas de Sabará" and until 1923 as "Villa Nova de Lima". The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the