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Mushroom Emoji 🍄

A red cap dotted with white spots on a short white stem, drawn like a classic toadstool rather than any specific edible variety. Foraging trips and mushroom-heavy meals use it straight, gaming fans read it as a nod to Mario's power-up mushrooms, and it stands in for psychedelic mushrooms too, depending entirely on who's sending it.

What 🍄 means

A two-layered emoji with a thick and short white stem at the bottom and a red cup-like, polka-dotted fleshy structure centered around and above the stem.

Looking a lot like Super Mushroom, the 🍄 Mushroom emoji can refer to the game to a lower extent. However, largely speaking, it signifies fungi (yep, and we love fungi!), nutrition, cooking, and psychedelics too.

How and when to use it

Starting with the subjectively legal usage - if you're posting or reposting anything that relates to fungi and mostly looks like a mushroom, you can use 🍄 in such captions.
Secondly, you may use 🍄 while sharing pictures of mushroom dishes! It can be a social media post/story or even a text message.
Since 🍄 looks like Goombas, you can also use this emoji while sharing some 'nostalgic' Nintendo posts about the game, a sketch of the same, or even a social media story about revisiting the game.
If you're sharing an embarrassing picture of the time you got a bowl cut, or more famously known as the 'mushroom cut' or you're currently embarrassing your kid by sharing his/her picture, then go on and use 🍄 in such contexts!
Now, the not-so-legal stuff (believe me, it's not legal everywhere as you may assume). You can use 🍄 while sharing anything related to magic mushrooms; it can be a picture/video from your camera roll, a story, or even a repost about the same.
Besides recreational use, 🍄 can also be used while sharing informative content about psilocybins too.

Other Names

🍄 Fungus
🍄 Toadstool
🍄 Fungi
🍄 Shrooms
🍄 Magic Mushrooms
🍄 Goomba
🍄 Agaricus
🍄 Puffball
🍄 Bolete
🍄 Morchella

🍄 in real conversations

What does 🍄 usually mean in a caption?

Mario, mostly, at least visually — the red cap with white spots is the exact look of Mario's Super Mushroom, the power-up that makes him grow, so 🍄 gets dropped into gaming jokes and nostalgia posts constantly. Outside gaming it also covers cottagecore aesthetics, foraging hauls, and cozy woodland vibes generally.

Isn't the red mushroom the 1-up one from Mario?

Common mix-up, but no — the red-and-white cap is the Super Mushroom, which makes Mario grow bigger; the extra-life mushroom is actually green and white. 🍄 still reads as 'Mario' to most people regardless of which power-up they're picturing, since the red cap is simply the more iconic, more frequently drawn version of the two.

Does 🍄 ever mean something besides Mario or actual mushrooms?

Sometimes, as a wink toward psychedelics — 'shrooms' is common slang for psilocybin mushrooms, and 🍄 occasionally gets used that way in captions about a trip or a festival, implied rather than stated outright. Most uses, though, stay literal or game-related: foraging photos, pasta and risotto shots, or a straightforward Mario reference.

The lowdown

Category: Animals & Nature › plant-other
Codepoints: U+1F344
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :mushroom:
Keywords: fungus, mushroom, toadstool

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.