Vegetables
Heredity: Open Pollinated

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Water Preferences: Mesic
Uses: Vegetable
Cooked greens
Edible Parts: Leaves
Eating Methods: Cooked
Dynamic Accumulator: P (Phosphorus)
Ca (Calcium)
S (Sulfur)
Mn (Manganese)
Zn (Zinc)
Cu (Copper)
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Self
Bees

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of 'Champion'.

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Common names
  • Collards
  • Collard Greens
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Brassica oleracea var. viridis
  • Synonym: Brassica oleracea var. acephala

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Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2021-04-29
Survived the winter in zone 5b Illinois.
Location: Victory Seed Company - Liberal, OR
Image used with permission of the Victory Seed Company.

Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Comments:
  • Posted by MikeD (Liberal, Oregon - Zone 8b) on Apr 10, 2015 10:48 AM concerning plant:
    75 days — Released by the Virginia Agricultural Experimental Station in 1979.

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