🍄‍🟫 brown mushroom Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste

What Does the brown mushroom Emoji 🍄‍🟫 Mean?

A classic brown-capped mushroom with a thick white stem, looking very much like a portobello or cremini — the brown mushroom emoji is a 2024 zero-width-joiner combo of the red toadstool mushroom plus a brown square, rendered as a realistic culinary mushroom on supporting platforms. Texters use it for actual cooking content where the red-and-white Mario mushroom would have felt all wrong: portobello burgers, mushroom risotto, sautéed-mushroom side dishes, ramen toppings, and mushroom-stroganoff recipes. Foraging content adopts it for posts about wild edible mushrooms found in the woods.

Vegan and plant-based content uses it heavily as a meaty texture substitute. Foodie-content creators welcomed this emoji as long-overdue, since the original mushroom emoji's fairytale toadstool look never matched real culinary mushrooms. Some users also adopt it for the more grown-up, earthy aesthetic compared to the storybook red-cap version.

Added to Unicode 15.1 in 2023 (rendered more widely starting 2024), the brown mushroom finally gave home cooks a realistic option for their actual meal posts.