Tree Emoji

🌳 is officially the deciduous tree, the round-crowned broadleaf that loses its leaves in winter; it is the general-purpose tree emoji for parks, gardens, shade and anything green. 🌲 is the evergreen tree, a conifer: pine, fir, spruce, forests, mountains, winter and camping. Together, 🌲🌲🌲 is the closest thing to a forest emoji, since Unicode has no single forest character. 🌴 is the palm tree, shorthand for beaches, holidays and the tropics, and 🌵 the cactus stands for deserts, Texas, Mexico, heat and a prickly mood.

The four classic trees all date from Unicode 6.0 in 2010, when the Japanese carrier emoji were standardised. The family stayed that size for fourteen years until 🪾 leafless tree arrived in Emoji 16.0 (2024): a bare tree for winter, drought, dead wood and the melancholy that 🌳 cannot carry. Phones updated in 2025 show it; older ones show an empty box, so give 🪾 a second emoji for context (🪾❄️) if your reader may be behind.

In slang, trees means cannabis, so 🌳 or 🌲 in the right conversation means weed, as can 🍃 and 🌿. From a girl or a guy with no such context, a tree emoji reads as calm, grounded, nature-loving or outdoorsy, or simply as a reply to a photo of trees. On X, a lone 🌲 in a bio has at times served as a marker for online political groups, so read the rest of the profile before you assume it means hiking.

Decorated trees: Christmas 🎄, Tanabata 🎋 and the New Year pine 🎍

🎄 Christmas tree is the most used tree emoji in December and the one people copy into emails and Outlook signatures; it pairs with 🎅 🎁 ⭐ ❄️, and the Christmas Emoji collection has the whole set. The other two decorated trees are Japanese. 🎋 Tanabata tree is a bamboo branch hung with coloured paper strips (tanzaku) on which people write wishes for the Star Festival on 7 July, so it also works as a wish or bamboo emoji. 🎍 pine decoration is the kadomatsu, the pine-and-bamboo arrangement placed in pairs at Japanese gates for the New Year; outside Japan it is mostly used as a bamboo emoji.

All three came from the same 2010 batch as the plain trees. 🎄 is drawn with ornaments on every platform, 🎋 shows the strips in different colours, and 🎍 shows three cut bamboo stems with pine sprigs, a detail that gets it mistaken for a flower pot at small sizes.

Leaf emoji: 🍁 🍂 🍃 🌿 ☘️ 🍀

🍁 maple leaf is autumn in one character and the symbol of Canada, so 🍁🇨🇦 is Canada Day and 🍁 alone often means Canadian. 🍂 fallen leaf is dry, brown and autumnal: fall, harvest, endings, cosy weather. 🍃 leaf fluttering in wind is green and light, used for a breeze, fresh air, spring, lightness and, in some chats, weed. 🌿 herb is the all-purpose green sprig for anything natural, vegan, calming or home-grown; it also appears in cooking contexts for parsley and basil.

The clovers are easy to confuse: ☘️ shamrock has three leaves and belongs to Ireland and St. Patrick's Day, while 🍀 four leaf clover is the lucky one, used for good luck and exams. 🌱 seedling and 🪴 potted plant are the beginning of a tree: new starts, growth and houseplants. A simple growth story is 🌱🌿🌳, from sprout to full tree, which is why 🌱 shows up in bios of beginners and new accounts.

Forest emoji: wood, fruit, parks and the animals that live there

🪵 wood (Emoji 13.0, 2020) is a cut log: firewood, lumber, woodworking and the "knock on wood" superstition. With 🪓 axe (2019) and 🪚 carpentry saw (2020) it covers chopping, logging and DIY, and 🪵🔥 is a campfire. 🍄 mushroom and the newer 🍄‍🟫 brown mushroom (2023) grow on the forest floor and finish any woodland scene; the brown one is a joined sequence of 🍄 and 🟫, so an older phone shows two characters.

🌰 chestnut is the only tree nut emoji, which is why it does double duty as an acorn: Unicode still has no acorn and no oak. The orchard fruit emoji are tree fruit too: 🍎 🍏 apples, 🍐 pear, 🍒 cherries, 🍑 peach, 🍊 tangerine, 🍋 lemon, 🥭 mango, 🥥 coconut and 🫒 olive. 🍎🌳 says orchard or apple tree, and 🥥🌴 is the coconut tree, famous since the 2024 "you think you just fell out of a coconut tree?" meme.

For a whole forest, combine trees with places: 🏞️ national park (a river valley with trees, 2014), 🏕️ camping and ⛺ tent, 🏡 house with garden (which has a tree beside it), 🏔️ ⛰️ 🌄 for mountains and sunrise, 🏝️ desert island with its single palm and 🏜️ desert with its cactus. Forest emoji combos people copy most are the camping ones: 🏕️🌲🔥, 🌲🌲🌲🦌 and 🏞️🥾🌄.

The forest's residents are their own emoji: 🪹 empty nest and 🪺 nest with eggs (both 2021; 🪹 also means empty-nest parents), 🐦 bird and 🦉 owl, 🐿️ chipmunk (the squirrel emoji, there is no separate one), 🦫 beaver, 🦔 hedgehog, 🦌 deer, 🦊 fox, 🐻 bear and 🐺 wolf. 🐨 koala, 🦥 sloth and 🐒 monkey live in the branches, and 🐛 🦋 🐌 🪲 crawl beneath them. The Animal Emoji and Camping, Hiking & Outdoors collections go deeper on each.

Tree text symbols: leaves, clubs and fleurons that work anywhere

There is no plain-text tree in Unicode, but several text characters stand in for one and keep the colour of your text in usernames and bios. ♣ club suit is a clover leaf (the French name of the suit, trèfle, simply means clover) and ♧ is its outlined twin; ♣ and ♧ are the most common "tree symbol" people paste into names. ❦ ❧ ☙ are the hedera or fleuron, the ivy-leaf ornament printers used between paragraphs, and ⸙ is a palm branch. The eight pointing leaves 🙐 🙑 🙒 🙓 🙔 🙕 🙖 🙗 come from the Ornamental Dingbats block and need a font such as Segoe UI Symbol or Noto to show.

Other scripts have tree characters too. The Elder Futhark rune ᛒ Berkanan is named after the birch, and ᛉ Algiz looks like a young tree or antlers and is read as protection in modern rune use. ⽊ is the Chinese radical for tree or wood (a lookalike of the ordinary character 木), ⽵ the bamboo radical, and ㊍ ㈭ are the circled and bracketed forms of wood that Japanese calendars use for Thursday, mokuyōbi, the day of wood.