Cattleya trianaei 'Patricia' on eBay

[Mike4paph]

I am wondering if anyone has any info. on Cattleya trianaei 'Patricia' . Reason I ask is I saw a listing on eBay of this plant and yet the picture shows it being bifoliated. I have a dozen of C. trianaei and none of those are bifoliated. Just curious.

[katrina]

I have 4 different trianae and they are all unifoliate. Not even a hint of a second leaf on any of them. I would be highly suspicious of it too.

[isurus79]

I see one that is a seedling for $50 in front of a wet wall. Looks fine to me. I have plenty of unifoliate seedlings that throw two leaves on their smaller growths. Heck, I've even got full grown bifoliates with three leaves. lol

[Mike4paph]

Thanks for the replies. I'm just curious since my dozen or so C. Trianaei (non-hybrids), from little baby growths all the way to bloom stage, are unifoliate. When I saw the bifoliate growth in that pot, I was wondering. Since I get all my plants thru divisions and never with seedlings, maybe the bifoliate appearance may indicate that plant comes from a seed cross or being a mericlone. Very interesting.

[isurus79]

The bifoliate growth on seedlings (IMO) often indicates an exceptionally happy plant during a particular growing season.

[katrina]

I didn't go look on ebay for the listing and I thought you meant the mature growths were bifoliate. If it's the seedling growths...that's a different matter. Like Steve pointed out, those tiny growths can sometimes make 2 leaves. Not a big deal. Mature growths though...I would never expect to see 2 leaves on a mature sized growth with this species.

[Oyarzabal]

I do have a C. Trianae Patricia. As a matter of fact it is the second C. Trianae flowering this year. It is a large plant with large pseudo bulbs, and definitively unifoliate. Some unifoliate polyploids will throw a second and sometime a third leave, but I do not think that is the case. I will stay away. The tag look like a plant from Plantio La Orquidea and as far I know, Enrique does not clone.

[OnGoodSoil]

Orchidweb has Cattleya trianaei 'Patricia' listed for $900. Even with their usual large markup, and the premium of a larger plant, $60 (the current price) seems a little too good to be true.

[Oyarzabal]

This plant bloomed at the beginning of this month.
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[katrina]

I stand corrected on the 2 leaves thing. I got a division of a friend's awarded trianae and one of the mature and previously bloomed growths is bifoliate. Just the one on a large division but, like with other orchids showing odd leaf counts for the species, trianae can pop odd leaf numbers too.