The man takes that answer... about as expected. It doesn't seem to phase the Chinese man. If anything, he seems briefly amused before reaching down to grasp one of the mushrooms by the stem.
"Pardon me," he says to seemingly no one before plucking the single mushroom and holding it up between himself and Héctor.
"The caps here. Scotch Bonnets have a bump on the top of their cap--this here." With the gentlest of touches, he places one immaculately sharpened finger on top of the mushroom's bump. "The False Champignons do not. They have flat tops or even a depression where this bump would be."
He turns the mushroom over then, exposing the underside, gesturing with that same finger to the array of gills. "Also, the False Champignons have many more gills on the underneath of their caps, which will be spaced closer together and often attach partway down the stem rather than at the very top."
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"Pardon me," he says to seemingly no one before plucking the single mushroom and holding it up between himself and Héctor.
"The caps here. Scotch Bonnets have a bump on the top of their cap--this here." With the gentlest of touches, he places one immaculately sharpened finger on top of the mushroom's bump. "The False Champignons do not. They have flat tops or even a depression where this bump would be."
He turns the mushroom over then, exposing the underside, gesturing with that same finger to the array of gills. "Also, the False Champignons have many more gills on the underneath of their caps, which will be spaced closer together and often attach partway down the stem rather than at the very top."