Minnie Mizelle Cabbage Collard

Plant color ranges from blue-green to green to yellow-green. Also, one plant formed a sport and is 2 plants in 1 and is more erect. Shorter plants measure 14-18 inches tall and 31-54 inches wide. Leaves are spatulate in shape and have many lobes and a wavy margin. Leaf blistering ranges from low to moderate. Plants are semi-prostrate and form well-developed heads. Variety was damaged by temperatures around 20 F, but was not killed. Not too sweet, but rather has a more earthy mustard like flavor. An heirloom collard from Henry Mizelle of Williamston, North Carolina. Henry's wife, Minnie Mizelle, saved seed of this variety for more than 60 years before she passed on in 2006 at the age of 90. Minnie shared the collard seeds with a number of local gardeners. She originally received this variety in the 1940s from her aunt, Martha Jones. In 2006, Henry gave seeds (of this variety and several others) to Dr. John Morgan, a cultural geographer and professor of geography at Emory & Henry College, who was collecting heirloom collard strains for preservation on behalf of the USDA. Seed Savers Exchange requested this variety in 2016 from the USDA collection (G 32754). SSE Accession # 133009