Unlike the red-and-white spotted mushroom emoji, which reads as a toxic toadstool, this one is a plain, edible-looking brown cap. It was added specifically to give cooks and foodies a mushroom that actually looks safe to eat, and it's used for pasta, stir-fries, and foraging content without the fairy-tale baggage of its older sibling.
What 🍄🟫 means
A classic brown-capped mushroom — the edible, forageable, put-it-in-risotto kind. The 🍄🟫 Brown Mushroom emoji (Emoji 15.1, September 2023) gave cooks and foragers an alternative to the red-and-white toadstool 🍄, which is iconic but famously not dinner.
It's the lemon-lime trick again: 🍄 joined with a brown square. Simple, effective, delicious.
How and when to use it
- Foraging season posts: "Two hours in the woods, one full basket 🍄🟫 autumn delivering."
- Cooking content where the red toadstool sends the wrong message: "Creamy 🍄🟫 pasta, twenty minutes, no regrets."
- Cottagecore and mushroom-identification communities adopted it on day one.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-vegetable
- Codepoints
U+1F344 U+200D U+1F7EB- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.1
- Shortcodes
:brown_mushroom:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- food, fungi, fungus, mushroom, nature, pizza, portobello, shiitake, shroom, spore, sprout, toppings, truffle, vegetable, vegetarian, veggie
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🍄🟫 Brown Mushroom or ♑ Capricorn?