They were... mundane mandrakes. Toby could have kicked himself. Well, actually he did, even though it was kind of awkward to do so. REALLY, though, such a simple thing to have overlooked, but he'd gone and done it. Promising, right?

Shaking his head at himself, Toby did his best to write some of this stuff down. Truebridge was saying a lot of words and usually in Herbology that was never really a problem for him, but today he was having trouble getting his brain to do the thing and it was... well... kinda disheartening.

Anyway, right, so... physical characteristics. And an offer to get up and go have a look? Toby hesitated for a moment, though he wasn't sure WHY, and put up his hand first. He REMEMBERED now that stuff had already been SAID. Typical. "Well, the roots, they're all twisted, right? It's actually a thing where, well... y'know with magical mandrakes the roots as basically sort of... humanoid? And scream and all that. Mundane mandrake roots can sometimes sort of look like human bodies too, but it's usually more to do with that's just how they grow. They don't scream or cry or anything like that." Sooooo yeah. That was a thing. "I'm not sure if it's just coincidentally how they grow or maybe if like, a magical mandrake is just a more developed mundane one or something, but I think it's pretty cool."

Okay. He was gonna go say hello to the plants, even though he'd already answered. Toby had his gloves with him (small miracles; he often left them in his dorm on the days he actually needed them), and so pulled them on before heading over to the cart with the mundane mandrakes, and carefully picking one up to take a better look.