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We developed some great blues names foundations in part 1 of developing your blues name. The second part of any great blues name . There are several thousand good fruit names that you can pick to help develop your blues name. Picking the wrong fruit, or possibly misidentifying a vegetable as a fruit could lead you down the wrong blues path. Selecting a succulent and tasty fruit will give those who hear your blues name, the impression that you are the real deal!

Follow up:

When developing your fruit portion of your blues name, be sure to qualify that you are picking a fruit. Nothing is more embarrassing when you get up on stage and you are announced as Blind Radish Jefferson. The ladies won’t hear the radish as it is not a fruit and think that you are afflicted with some weird blind rash thing, not good for you.

You should check your fruit against the current Wikipedia article about fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_fruits. Acceptable fruits include, but are not limited too:

* Apple and crabapple (Malus)
* Chokeberry (Aronia)
* Hawthorn (Crataegus and Rhaphiolepis)
* Loquat (Eryobotrya japonica)
* Medlar (Mespilus germanica)
* Pear, European and Asian species (Pyrus)
* Quince (Cydonia oblonga and Chaenomeles)
* Rose hip, the fruitlike base of roses (Rosa); used mostly for jams and herbal tea
* Rowan (Sorbus)
* Service tree (Sorbus domestica), bears a fruit known as a sorb or sorb apple
* Serviceberry or Saskatoon (Amelanchier)
* Shipova (× Sorbopyrus auricularis)

You should avoid those poisonous fruits, or at least use them with caution. Inadvertent use of poisonous plants could lead one to think you are going to poison them!

* Aconitum (Aconite, wolfsbane, monkshood) (Aconitum napellus).
* Autumn crocus.
* Azalea.
* Bittersweet nightshade
* Bleeding heart
* Black locust.
* Black nightshade
* Blue-green algae
* Angel's Trumpet
* Caladium / Elephant Ear.
* Castor oil plant
* Daffodil (Narcissus (genus)).
* Daphne (Daphne sp.).
* Darnel / Poison Ryegrass
* Datura / nightshade.
* Deathcamas / black snakeroot.
* Delphinium. Contains the alkaloid delsoline.
* Doll's eyes.

Giving your self the wrong fruit will give you the fruit blues

Calling yourself Sadni Dan Nightshade Dathcamus will not get you very far!