The Hygrocybe persistens is fairly rare mushroom in the Netherlands, growing in scanty grasslands, roadsides and grassy areas in the dunes. It is a golden-yellow mushroom, both cap and stem, with pale yellow gills. Its distinctive umbo probably explains the Dutch name 'pointed hat waxcap'. The spangle waxcap is a similar mushroom found in the same habitat and is also a rare fungus. Mushrooms are often linked with mystical beings such as dwarfs, elves, witches and devils. That is because people didn't understand how they could grow so quickly and then just disappear again. Waxcaps lend their color and waxiness to this mysticism, seen particularly in the names (elves, fire, vermilion, garnet flower, scarlet).

If elves really did exist then it would be easy to believe that the parasol mushroom served as its home. This large mushroom is numerous and easy to spot in the dunes, with a stem between 15 and 30 centimeters and cap 10 to 25 centimeters. It grows in little to unfertilized grasslands and roadsides and in woodlands on damp nutrient-poor soil. You sometimes find it growing in a fairy ring. If found young, it is very edible. The parasol mushroom is found throughout the country. However its relative Lepiota alba is a true coastal species, found in dry calcium-rich grasslands and among short dune vegetaton. It is much smaller, between 4 and 6 centimeters tall, and therefore much less evident than the parasol. It has a felty white to creamy colored cap with a yellowish center and flaky edges. Lepiota albas are relatively rare in the Netherlands.

This strange, tough mushroom is commonly found, particularly on old branches of elder in the dunes. During droughts, tree-ears shrivel up, becoming hard and unrecognizable. Once it rains again, they swell up into soft ear-shaped mushrooms. They are usually between 3 and 8 centimeters and have only a short stub as stem. Tree-ears are edible but tough. You can find them the entire year and throughout the country. However there is a subspecies, Hirneola auricula-judea v. auricula-judea, which is rarer and found specifically on Texel and in the Biesbosch/Rotterdam region. It is a species which is positively influenced by gobal warming.

Morels can be found locally in large numbers in the spring in calcium-rich dunes. They are easy to recognize by their spongy irregular honeycomb cap, measuring up to 10 centimeters tall, and a 9-centimeter long hollow stem. Morels only appear for a short period in the spring, usually under deciduous hardwoods in rich sand. Morels grow primarily along the Holland coast, including Texel, and along rivers.

The dung button, also nicknamed nail fungus, grows on dung from herbivores such as horses. It is a very small button-shaped mushroom. Its nail-like attachment to the underground explains why it is sometimes referred to as nail fungus. It is a rare mushroom in the Netherlands, growing in the dunes and poor grasslands, as long as there is horse dung available. Dung buttons grows scattered along the coast and on older inland driftsands. Its relative Poronia erici grows mostly on dung from hares and rabbits and is much more limited to the coast.

The slender parasol is a white to pale cream colored mushroom with a distinct nipple in the middle of the cap. It has a thick woolly ring on its stem and scales on the cap. It grows in open woodlands, dune grasslands and on roadside in dry nutrient-poor soil. This edible mushroom is rare in the Netherlands. There is a concentration of this mushroom on Texel, a few scattered areas along the coast and elsewhere more inland.

The slender parasol appears late in summer till autumn. With a height of 8 to 10 centimeters and cap diameter 8 to 12 centimeters, it is much less notable than its relative parasol but more conspicuous than Lepiota alba.

Neottiella rutilans has no common English name, but a translation of the Dutch name gives a good description of this mushroom: 'orange moss cup fungus'. It is shaped like a saucer with a very stubby stem which is practically buried in the soil. Neottiella rutilans parasitizes on moss growing in humus-poor sand. It is fairly rare in the Netherlands, growing mostly on wind-blown sand, grasslands and calcium-poor sand. It is found along the North-Holland coast, the Wadden Islands and scattered areas inland.