German Butterbean

Pole lima. A staff favorite in 2014! Beans are sweet, moist, and juicy with a buttery taste. Texture is smooth and creamy. Vigorous climber. Pods slightly curved with a short beak. Large pods 3.8-5.5" long and 0.9-1.2" wide. All white seeds are very large and flat. 2-4 seeds per pod. Dry pods shattering type. Intermediate productivity and late season maturing when grown in 2014 at Heritage Farm. Donated to SSE by William Rastetter who obtained the variety sometime before 1968 from Flossie (Canfield) Drake (b.1893-d.1968) of Anderson, IN. Likely grown by Flossie's mother, Margaret (Mendel) Canfield, in Dearborn County, IN in the late 1800s. SSE Accession # 112737