Albuca canadensis flowers

The Albuca canadensis raceme in picture is at the top a compact structure of many concealed buds. Broad-based green bracts with white margins dominate, attenuating their elongated tips curving in. Lower down the more spaced, barrel-shaped, green and white buds show themselves gradually, while developing elongated pedicels that veer away from the stem and pushing the bracts into little-noticed, colour-changed submission. Spreading of outer tepals, flower nodding and dabbling with yellow tepal colouring follow towards maturity.

The  name Albuca canadensis used to belong to a yellow flowering species, while this plant was previously called A. maxima. Proposals that the albucas revert to the Ornithogalum genus whence they came way back, has for now died down.

You can name your children as you wish, while changing their names is hopefully seldom necessary. Plant and animal species have to be renamed on occasion in accordance with the scientific system adhered to in taxonomy. None of the flowers ever develops a sweeter scent from such a name change, as Shakespeare reminded us long ago. Still some of those taking responsibility for order in botanical science breathe unscented air easier when formal taxon names fit the latest relationship knowledge properly (Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Manning, 2007; iNaturalist).