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When we peel the skin of a potato tuber, we remove

When we peel the skin of a potato tuber, we remove periderm.

In some small woody stem and many non-woody stem, the epidermis is replaced with periderm. Periderm is a kind of cork.


Potato is an underground stem. The outer epidermal layer of this underground stem is known as periderm.


Hence the correct answer is option (a).

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