internal brown spot

noun

variants or internal brown fleck

: a nonparasitic disease of the potato that is of unknown cause and is characterized by brown corky spots scattered throughout the interior of the tuber and sometimes by ring-shaped corky surface lesions

called also corky ring spot

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