Hadn't seen this before - I wonder if that was once on the potato outside and then grew closed?
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I doubt it, seeing as all the cavity consists of tapered shapes. A mushroom would leave behind some evidence of being sealed inside, and the mushroom cap structure grows above ground, while spuds grow buried underneath soil. It logistically doesn't quite check out IMO.
What I suspect happens in these kinds of shapes- and I see them fairly often -is that the potato simply expands as it grows, and it just pulls apart at some point of stress, kinda like a warped piece of wood.
Except its an oblate spheroid, so it "cracks" in the center.
This could be some kind of encapsulated material, I don't know the details of how potatoes protect themselves from foreign bodies.
But, in theory, there could be some kinda dead fungus in there, slain by a potato-based void...?
I wasn't saying there was a mushroom inside :) I meant it may have grown with a small pit, which it then grew over / closed the walls on. But the other explanations here are more likely.
Lol sorry, I totally misunderstood. But I'm learning so much about potatoes, so its a cool thread anyway!