Evergreen Tree 🌲

The evergreen tree depicts a tall conifer with a classic triangular silhouette and dense, dark green branches that extend nearly to the ground. The trunk is typically brown or dark, and the overall shape resembles a pine, fir, or spruce—trees that retain their needles year-round regardless of season.

This emoji is most iconic as the universal symbol for Christmas and winter holidays. People use it to decorate festive messages, holiday greetings, and seasonal posts from November through early January. Beyond the holidays, it appears in discussions about forests, camping, nature hikes, and outdoor adventures in colder climates.

The evergreen tree also carries meanings tied to resilience and endurance, since these trees maintain their vibrant color when deciduous counterparts go bare. It's popular in environmental or conservation posts celebrating forest preservation.

Across most platforms, the design is consistent—a simple, recognizable conifer shape that reads immediately as "winter" or "forest." This emoji was approved as part of Unicode Emoji 1.0 in 2015 and has remained a staple of holiday messaging ever since.