why potato is considered as a stem not a fruit?

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Potato is a modified stem called tuber, which is modified to store food. As the tuber has all the parts of a normal stem, including nodes and internodes, the nodes are the eyes and each eye has a leaf scar. That is why it is a stem not a fruit.

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