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Embers Beneath the Chanterelle: botanical art phone wallpaper in black, brown and orange, for iPhone and Android lock screens

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Embers Beneath the Chanterelle

A botanical art wallpaper for iPhone and Android lock screens, from Morrow's daily wallpaper drop.

Free JPEG sized for phone screens. The Morrow app has the 4K original.

Collection
Cabinet of the Forest Floor
Released

Colors

Black, brown, orange and red. Tap a color to copy it.

About this wallpaper

Early November belongs to the forager. The leaves have fallen, the soil has softened under weeks of rain, and from the damp dark rise the season's quiet treasures: chanterelles like folded apricot silk, parasols opening their pale umbrellas, the last stubborn cyclamen blushing pink against decay.

This piece borrows the solemn light of the old masters, who knew that shadow gives a humble object its dignity, and presses it into the most modest of formats: the café matchbook, once handed across marble counters with a coffee and forgotten in a coat pocket. Its slightly offset inks and embossed grain remind us that beauty can be small, cheap, and treasured anyway.

Why today? Because as daylight shortens, we learn to love the glow we carry with us. Let this ember of the forest floor warm your screen, a pocket-sized lantern reminding you that the darkest soil grows the most golden things.

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A new art wallpaper on your lock screen, every morning

Morrow is a free wallpaper app for iPhone and Android. Each day brings a new piece of art made for phone screens, with the story behind it, and many pieces come in more than one version in the app.