Book  (Jun 1992)  Page(s) 171.  
 
Rössig discusses Rosa foetida (as Rosa cerea)...

Book  (May 1992)  Page(s) 7.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Aug 1990)  Page(s) 57.  
 
often called Austrian Brier or Austrian Yellow because it was known in Austria in the sixteenth century

Article (magazine)  (1988)  Page(s) 24-25.  
 
...The highest Yellow values are found in R. ecae and R. foetida. Their almost spectrally pure Yellow is not yet attained by any hybrid...
[Colour description according to the CIELAB colour space (petal inside): L* = Lightness, a* = red-green axis, b* = yellow-blue axis]
Rosa foetida (bright yellow), L* 82-84, a* -4 to +3, b* 95-103

Article (magazine)  (1988)  Page(s) 63-64.  Includes photo(s).
 
There are no traces of anthocyanides in the single-blooming R. foetida Herrm. (= R. lutea Miller). The blooms contain a very high concentration of carotenoids (150 mg%). The construction is very complex. More than 40 components could be identified. All stages of carotenoid-synthesis and transformation are present, with an unusual emphasis on stages V and VI (in total 87%). The intensive yellow colour is now determined by Violaxanthine (60%) and 27% by its somewhat lighter transformation products. The colour corresponds very well to those of the yellow violets and the blooms of forsythias, which also contain a lot of Violaxanthine.....In summary we want to mention the changes which the crossing of R. foetida has brought: It is mainly an acceleration of all biogenesis steps which lead to Violaxanthine and Auroxanthine. Accordingly, the colourless carotenoids are transformed rapidly into the coloured ones via the introduction of many conjugated double bonds and then cyclised, oxydated and epoxyed. The colour moves first into the orange-region, but ends finally in purest yellow.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 150.  
 
location 171/1+2, 171a, 216a; R. foetida Herrm. (R. lutea Miller), FUCHSROSE, AUSTRIAN BRIER, AUSTRIAN YELLOW ROSE, PIMPINELLIFOLIAE, Anatolia, Persia, Afghanistan, northwest Himalaya, 1583, deep yellow, single, medium, unpleasant fragrance, vigorous, upright, arching, branched, 1.5-2 m, dark green small matte-glossy foliage, 5 leaflets, brick-red medium size rounded fruit

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 15.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa foetida J. Hermann (R. lutea Miller) A shrub up to 3 m, with glabrous young twigs and few straight, or slightly curved, slender prickles. Leaflets 7-9, aromatic, sparsely glandular beneath and on the margins, dull green on both sides. Flowers around 6 cm across; petals often suffused with red. Sepals becoming leafy at the apex. Hips dark brick red. ..This species...may have originated as a hybrid between R. kokanica and R. hemispherica.

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Rosa foetida (Austrian Briar Rose).....5 x 4’.

Book  (2 Jan 1984)  Page(s) 26.  Includes photo(s).

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rosa foetida (Austrian Briar Rose) Rich yellow, single flowers on a vigorous shrub with glossy foliage. 16th century or earlier. (S) 10 x 5’.