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Botanical & Natural History No. 034

Victorian Mushrooms & Forest Fungi

Forage through the ancient damp forest floor with the Victorian Mushroom & Forest Fungi collection!

Contents
90+ illustrations
Format
PNG · digital download
Resolution
300 DPI
Size
approx. 4000 × 4000 px
Background
Transparent
Licence
Commercial use — see listing

From the Etsy listing

Victorian Mushrooms & Forest Fungi

Forage through the ancient damp forest floor with the Victorian Mushroom & Forest Fungi collection! Featuring 90+ high-resolution transparent PNG illustrations celebrating the untamed beauty of wild mushrooms, tree bracket fungi, and antique mycological field studies: vibrant scarlet amanitas, king boletes, golden chanterelles, honeycomb morels, wicker foraging baskets, bristle-tipped harvest knives, and authentic herbarium spore prints.

Crafted in the authentic style of 19th-century scientific naturalist folios, each illustration features rich watercolor washes in amanita scarlet, golden chanterelle ochre, deep forest moss green, earthy raw umber, and mycelium cream, finished with delicate dark sepia ink sketch outlines and authentic antique paper distressing.

Specially designed for creators of cottagecore and goblincore junk journals, autumn wedding invitations, kitchen wall art prints, botanical planner stickers, Kindle accessories, sublimation mugs, and nature study educational materials.

Here is a breakdown of what you will find inside this collection:

  • Iconic Wild Mushrooms & Toadstools (18 items): Scarlet Amanita muscaria, young button cups, King Boletes (porcini), golden chanterelles, black morels, shaggy ink caps, amethyst deceivers, parasols, and bleeding tooth fungi.
  • Tree Brackets & Mossy Wood Formations (18 items): Turkey tail birch logs, mossy stumps sprouting orange bonnets, oyster mushroom boughs, sulfur shelf brackets, scarlet elf cups, and subterranean mycelium roots.
  • Forest Floor Companions & Wildlife (6 items): Garden snails on caps, wood ants on bolete stems, jewel scarab beetles, ladybugs, and honeybees on chanterelles.
  • Mycological Herbarium & Ephemera (18 items): Pressed fungi mounting folios with Latin calligraphy, radial spore prints, open field journals with sketches, comparative gill charts, Manila tags, and vintage stamps.
  • Forager Tools & Gathering Gear (18 items): Wicker harvest baskets heaped with mushrooms, curved harvesting knives with cleaning brushes, leather satchels, brass pocket magnifiers, wooden plant presses, lanterns, and mesh gathering bags.
  • Borders, Frames, Seals & Garlands (12 items): Twig and chanterelle oval frames, Ex Libris bookplates, terracotta mushroom wax seals, "The Forest Floor" Spencerian scripts, and lush moss wreaths.

Technical Specifications

  • Quantity: 90+ individual PNG files.
  • Quality: High-resolution 300 DPI, perfect for physical printing and sticker cutting.
  • Size: Large files, approximately 4000 x 4000 pixels.
  • Transparency: Meticulously isolated on a 100% transparent background with clean edges.

Commercial Use License Included

You are welcome to use these designs for commercial physical products (printed journals, stickers, wall art, stationery, mugs, apparel). Reselling, sharing, or distributing the digital PNG files in their original format is strictly prohibited.

Delivery

This is an instant digital download. Upon purchase, you will receive a PDF file containing a direct, secure link to a Google Drive folder where your high-res files are organized and ready.

Complete List of the 90 Illustrations Included:

  1. Scarlet Amanita muscaria with ruffled annulus
  2. Pair of young Amanita buttons in volva cup
  3. Plump King Bolete Porcini with reticulated stem
  4. Golden Chanterelle cluster with ruffled rim
  5. Black Morel fungus with conical honeycomb cap
  6. Tall Shaggy Ink Cap dissolving into ink drops
  7. Fairy ring marasmius cluster on stems
  8. Deep violet Amethyst Deceiver with gills
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  1. Saffron Milk Cap with orange zoning rings
  2. Parasol mushroom expanded like umbrella
  3. Bleeding Tooth fungus with crimson sap beads
  4. Translucent porcelain mushrooms on twig
  5. Bioluminescent ghost fungus with green halo
  6. Antler-like branched coral fungus cluster
  7. Earthstar puffball with peeled star petals
  8. Denim-blue Indigo Milk Cap oozing milk
  9. Common spiny puffball expelling brown spores
  10. Black Trumpet Horn of Plenty funnel cluster
  11. Turkey Tail bracket fungi on birch tree log
  12. Mossy oak stump sprouting orange bonnets
  13. Velvety oyster mushroom colony on fallen log
  14. Sulfur shelf Chicken of the Woods on wood
  15. Artists Conk bracket fungus on gnarled bark
  16. Scarlet Elf Cups growing on mossy twig
  17. Forest floor vignette with amanita and acorns
  18. Clearing vignette of chanterelles and berries
  19. River stone cluster with miniature fairy caps
  20. Wild field mushrooms amidst tangled grasses
  21. Bird's nest fungi holding egg peridioles
  22. Underground white mycelium root network
  23. Striped garden snail crawling on amanita cap
  24. Wood ant climbing bolete stem with needle
  25. Jewel scarab beetle on black trumpet mushroom
  26. Spotted ladybug on drop of fungus sap
  27. Golden honeybee hovering over chanterelles
  28. Forest field slug nibbling yellow russula
  29. Herbarium specimen sheet with bolete and Latin
  30. Radial spore print card on black background
  31. Radial spore print card on aged vellum paper
  32. Open mycologist field journal with sketches
  33. Comparative anatomical lithograph of gills
  34. Folding chart of mushroom mycelial growth
  35. Manila botanical specimen tag No. 88 on string
  36. Three faux Victorian fungi postage stamps
  37. Botanical collection voucher with blank fields
  38. London Mycological Society 1891 paper label
  39. Royal Epping Forest Fungi Foray ticket 1894
  40. Brass-framed glass microscope tissue slide
  41. Glass apothecary jar with sliced porcini
  42. Glass cloche dome encasing moss and amanitas
  43. Corked apothecary vial of dark brown spores
  44. Velvet naturalist shadowbox with four fungi
  45. Stoneware crock pot labeled Dry Morel Fungi
  46. Glass test tube in brass clamp with Mycena
  47. Wicker foraging basket brimming with mushrooms
  48. Curved harvesting knife with bristle brush
  49. Leather field satchel with brass magnifier
  50. Folding brass pocket magnifying loupe
  51. Wooden field plant press with brass screws
  52. Brass hurricane oil storm lantern on stump
  53. Open-weave mesh foraging bag with mushrooms
  54. Leather gardening gloves with brass trowel
  55. Brass pocket compass open on mossy earth
  56. Ash walking stick cane with antler handle
  57. Dried chaga and reishi fungi tied in twine
  58. Clay drying dish with sliced parasol caps
  59. Botanical garland spray of spruce and chanterelles
  60. Horizontal divider of ground ivy and amanitas
  61. Botanical bouquet of bracken fern and morels
  62. Corner vignette of bark, brackets, and bonnets
  63. Circular medallion of pine needles and buttons
  64. Cascading garland runner of bracket fungi
  65. Symmetrical oval frame of twigs and chanterelles
  66. Arched stone window frame with climbing toadstools
  67. Mycologist Ex Libris bookplate with knives
  68. Baroque cartouche frame with morels and ivy
  69. Forest mycological heraldic crest with shield
  70. Waving deckled parchment ribbon banner scroll
  71. Terracotta wax seal with Amanita toadstool
  72. Antique gold wax seal with morel cluster
  73. Forest green wax seal with spore print motif
  74. Spencerian script The Forest Floor in sepia
  75. Spencerian script Wild Fungi with flourishes
  76. Typographic seal Royal Mycological Society
  77. Circular wreath of moss, amanitas, chanterelles
  78. Fireplace mantle arch garland with morels
  79. Bunting banner of fungi toile and green velvet
  80. Hanging wall garland of dried mushrooms on twine
  81. Circular wreath of birch twigs and turkey tails
  82. Horizontal table runner garland of moss and fungi.