New Mexican cuisine and red flint corn varieties are used for specialties like and blue-corn tortilla chips. Kernel corn and corn on the cob are frequent side dishes, as in the rest of the American South. Corn is not a frequent component of New Mexico or , and is usually a separate side dish in and of itself. Anise is common in some desserts, especially the state cookie, the bizcochito. Cilantro, a pungent green herb (also called Mexican or Chinese parsley, the seeds of which are known as coriander) used fresh in salsas, and as a topping for virtually any dish; not common
Iberian parsley frog been identified as degradation of its habitat, the loss of its breeding pools, and the predation of the invasive freshwater crayfish "Procambarus clarkii". Iberian parsley frog The Iberian parsley frog ("Pelodytes ibericus") is a species of frogs in the family Pelodytidae, known as "parsley frogs" because of their green speckles. This species is only found in Portugal and Spain; in Spanish it is known as "sapillo moteado ibérico". Adult Iberian parsley frogs attain a length of about and look very similar to the common parsley frog ("Pelodytes punctatus", its sister species) but are a little smaller with shorter limbs. The