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==Origin and uses==
''Phaseolus lunatus'' is found in [[Mesoamerica|Meso]]- and [[South America]]. Two gene pools of cultivated lima beans point to independent [[domestication]] events. The Mesoamerican lima bean is distributed in neotropical lowlands, while the other is found in the western Andes.<ref name="Serrano-Serrano et al 2012" /> They were discovered in Peru.<ref>https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Lima_Bean
The Andes domestication took place around 2000 BC<ref name="motta">{{cite journal |last1=Motta-Aldana |first1=Jenny R. |last2=Serrano-Serrano |first2=Martha L. |last3=Hernández-Torres |first3=Jorge |last4=Castillo-Villamizar |first4=Genis |last5=Debouck |first5=Daniel G. |last6=Chacóns |first6=Maria I. |title=Multiple Origins of Lima Bean Landraces in the Americas: Evidence from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Polymorphisms |journal=Crop Science |date=September 2010 |volume=50 |issue=5 |pages=1773–1787 |doi=10.2135/cropsci2009.12.0706 }}</ref> and produced a large-seeded variety (lima type), while the second, taking place in Mesoamerica around 800 AD, produced a small-seeded variety (Sieva type).<ref name="motta" /> By around 1300, cultivation had spread north of the [[Rio Grande]], and, in the 1500s, the plant began to be cultivated in the Old World.<ref name="motta" />
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