Which among the following is a mismatched pair of plant and its edible part?

Potato - stem

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Spinach - leaf

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Carrot - root

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Sweet potato - stem

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Solution

The correct option is D Sweet potato - stem
The potato that we consume is a modified underground stem of the plant. The edible part hence is a stem. But in sweet potatoes, the roots are modified to store food in the form of starch and are edible. Therefore, the edible part of sweet potato are roots.

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