🍄 Mushroom

🍄 Mushroom is one of the plants in Unicode's Animals & Nature group. People send it when the subject is fungus and toadstool.

One caveat: 🍄 has a well-established second meaning in online slang. Read it in context rather than at face value – the double meaning overview has the details.

🍄 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Animals and Nature. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F344.

• 🍄 on its own already flags the topic: fungus.
• Fits messages about fungus and toadstool.
• Often seen near 🪹 Empty Nest, 🪾 Leafless Tree and 🪺 Nest with Eggs.

In Central Europe the red-and-white fly agaric is a symbol of luck and belongs on New Year cards – despite being poisonous. The association probably arose through Germanic and Siberian rituals in which the mushroom served as an intoxicant.

Since 1985 it has been known worldwide through Super Mario Bros. as an extra life. Online, 🍄 also frequently stands in for psilocybin mushrooms, because the words themselves are filtered.

• 🍄☘️ – Mushroom and Shamrock
• 🍄🍃 – Mushroom with Leaf Fluttering in Wind
• 🍄🪹 – Mushroom plus Empty Nest
• 🍄🍁 – Mushroom and Maple Leaf
• 🍄🌵 – Mushroom with Cactus
• 🍄🌾 – Mushroom plus Sheaf of Rice
• 🍄🍀 – Mushroom and Four Leaf Clover
• 🍄🌿 – Mushroom with Herb

Easy to mix up with 🪹 Empty Nest, 🪾 Leafless Tree or 🪺 Nest with Eggs. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.