Cattleya trianaei 'Patricia' on eBay
 

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

A Picture of my Trianae Patricia
 

This plant bloomed at the beginning of this month.
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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.