The artwork, which adorns the side of a building, shows a splattering of green paint behind a leafless tree which looks like leaves. There is also a stencil of a woman holding a pressure hose nearby.

The new emojis include a leafless tree, a purple splatter, a shovel, a harp, a beetroot, a fingerprint, the flag for Sark, an island in the English Channel, and a tired face with puffy eyes.

The leafless tree icon is one of seven new emojis that will be available on cellphones during the first half of 2025, Bloomberg said. The others are a face with bags under its eyes, ...

The leafless tree — also known as the “dead tree” or “dying tree” emoji — was first pitched in 2022 by Brian Baihaki, who saw a gap in messaging graphics that touch on environmentalism.

A new Banksy artwork near Finsbury Park in north London shows a stencil of a person having spray painted tree foliage onto a wall behind a leafless tree.