![]() It was bred from probably a more northerly strain of the same species that Collards were bred from. Cabbage was bredįrom wild cabbage to have the fat tight bud, so as to be storable through the winter. For this reason, Africans and Afroamericans often eat Collards while northern and eastern Europeans and their descendants far more familiar with cabbage. You can grow them in places like southern Georgia where it is too hot for cabbage. I don’t know why…they might actually have a bit of tropical blood in them. ![]() If you ever travel in Europe and get something that looks like salad greens but is a bit tougher and heartier than lettuce, and often fairly pretty shades of blue-green or purple, often with a ruffled leaf margin (varies from highly frilled toĬollards are very commonly eaten in the subtropics and tropical highlands, because they don’t bolt as easily as their domesticated cousin cabbage does. It is not commonly-eaten among the British, which is why they might use the word for something else. “Kale is commonly-eaten on the European continent, especially as you go further east where lettuce is harder to grow due to the severity of the climate. Although they are considered different species, there are no genetic barriers to crossing them. Kale is a more “salady” vegetable, often used as a winter salad green that is available over a longer season than lettuce. Collards are Brassica oleifera var acephala. “ In the UK, people tend to refer to what everybody else in the world calls “Collards” as “Kale”. DiBenedetto’s scholarly insights into collards and kale. This is an abridged version containing Mr. Image of Cussonia paniculata from Tower Hill Botanic GardenĪnd if you’re savvy enough to be asking yourself, “What’s the difference between Tree Collards and Walking Stick Kale?” Michael DiBenedetto elucidated this distinction in a 5/2/09 Gardenweb post. ![]() I’m envisioning an edible cussonia, although the tree collard may possibly fall short of a cussonia’s good looks. acephala, the mighty Tree Collard, a perennial. That’s 8 to 10 feet, with anecdotal reports of 20-year-old plants reaching heights of 20 feet! (And I’ll take mine braised, thank you very much.)īrassica oleracea var.
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