Trevoria
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Trevoria is a genus
Genus
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 of orchids. It was described by FC Lehmann in 1897 (ser 3 vol21:pgs.345-346 in Gardeners Chronicle) with a black and white picture of Trevoria chloris.
(A photo of this single plant is also in the new vol 6 of the book Native Colombian Orchids: Volume 6: Supplement: Leucohyle-Zootrophion (1998). It grows in intermediate temperature and is found from Nicaragua
Nicaragua
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 and Costa Rica
Costa Rica
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 to Bolivia
Bolivia
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. The name is in honor of Sir Trevor Lawrence, a former president of The Royal Horticultural Society
Royal Horticultural Society
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Culture

The lava stone for culture is watered daily with 200 yS of a urea free mineral
NPK fertilizer. Leaves should be dried soon after they get wet to prevent leaf spot fungi. Every 10 days plants should get organic fertilizer over the leaves in a solution of up to 600 yS. Occasionally, fish emulsion or sea weed fertilizer (Bioalgen S90) or an amino acid fertilizer is applied. Other genera that grow
well on such stones is the closely related Schlimia and also some terrestrial Polycycnis like P. morganii.

T. chloris flowers are extremely fragrant and do not require pollinators. they are only open for one day.

Concerning sandwich mounts it should be mentioned that Coryanthes were found
to grow even better on sandwich mounts without bark, only Styrofoam (make sure
by calling the producer its free of Freon or similar toxic substances added to
prevent fire in some kinds of styrofoam), some large pieces of broken clay
pots and a bit of fiber peat fixed together with a cord made of synthetic
material.

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