Mushroom wallpapers

Mushrooms have a reputation as a niche subject, but on a screen they are surprisingly good: they come with their own spotlight. A pale cap in a dark forest, a cluster of small caps glowing against moss, gills seen from below. The pictures on this page range from forest-floor macros to fantasy forests with giant caps and drifting spores.

The macro pictures are the more natural ones. They use shallow depth of field and soft, damp light, and the colours are earthy: browns, creams, olive and the occasional red cap. They sit comfortably behind a work desktop.

The fantasy pictures go the other way. Oversized mushrooms tower like trees, light filters through the gills, and some glow in blue or violet. They look best on a phone, where a tall frame shows the height of the forest.

None of these are field guides, and no picture here should be used to identify what you can eat. They are for looking at.

If you want more of the woodland setting, the forest page has misty and dark scenes. For the plant side, the botanical page covers ferns, moss and leaves.

42 mushroom wallpapers (29 for desktop, 6 for phones, 7 square), all free to download in 4K as PNG or JPEG.

From the themes Bioluminescence, Split-season fungi, Mushroom cathedral, Giant mushroom forest, Felt mushroom garden, Botanical macro, Miniature worlds.