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I mushroom aficionado I really enjoyed this fascinating history and information. Both from my more wild college days and now as a food explorer. I just had to share that if you eat avocados, you should save the pits and carve some mini mushrooms. They look so realistic! It take about 2 minutes to carve one! Once the brown covering of the avocado dries and is removed you are ready to carve your mushroom with a dull paring knife. What will I do with them? Hmm. I am thinking they may look very sweet hanging from a mini Evergreen tree or be cute attached to a gift bag. I hope someone gets a kick out of this....I sure do! They also can be sliced and made into buttons...they look as if they were made from antler. I wish I could post a picture...but Goggle will get you some images.

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Aug 21Liked by Jennifer Daniel

why do I see "red and white mushroom" and "brown square" instead of this pretty brown mushroom? By the way, in my heart it is a Psilocybe cubensis.

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Hi Angelo! The Brown Mushroom emoji is a ZWJ sequence combining 🍄 Mushroom, Zero Width Joiner and 🟫 Brown Square. This will display as a single brown mushroom character once your device of choice gets a software update. (Android and iOS environments upgraded earlier this year. Microsoft as recently as June.) If you haven't updated your device software in awhile it may be worth a refresh.

In the meantime, you may enjoy some of these other Unicode shrooms 𓍊𓋼𓍊𖡼.𖤣𖥧𖡼.𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊𓋼ⱄⰔ :)

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Aug 21Liked by Jennifer Daniel

omg this is such a wholesome response, I love the unicode shrooms!

Yeah, weirdly I can type brown mushroom using Substack in Firefox, 🍄‍🟫, see? Beautiful. But, in my gmail client (also Firefox), I see the combination. Sad sad sad for gmail :(

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ZWJ sequences sucks, the worst idea ever, just create a new atomic emoji and ended.

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