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Here is the main spot of the black

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and another

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Sorry this is a clear picture but you can still see the darkness

I was able to scrape off the blackness from the stem and it came off so I don't know what to think about it. I didn't want to scrape away all of the stem and open it up for any infections.... I have some other pictures from farther away