Leaf wallpapers

A leaf is a small, complete design: a pattern of veins, an edge, a colour that shifts from base to tip. This page collects pictures that treat leaves as the main subject, from a single backlit maple leaf with every vein glowing to a frosted leaf on dark ground and a canopy of green seen from below.

Autumn is well represented, with reds, oranges and golden yellows on dark backgrounds that make the colours look almost lit from within. Summer greens are fresh and bright. Frost and ice pictures are cooler and more graphic, with white crystals tracing the leaf edge.

Because leaves are flat and fairly symmetrical, they make stable wallpapers. A single leaf centred on a tall frame suits a phone lock screen well, and a scattering of leaves across a wide frame gives a desktop something to look at without a strong focal point.

If you like these, the botanical page goes further into ferns and plants, while the forest page shows the same material at the scale of a whole wood. The winter and ice pages are a good next stop for the frosted leaves.

83 leaf wallpapers (42 for desktop, 14 for phones, 27 square), all free to download in 4K as PNG or JPEG.

From the themes Botanical macro, Split-season leaves, Dry forest, Sage atmosphere, Autumn leaves on a wet road, Two seasons, Seasonal palette, Watercolour ducks.