Article (newsletter)  (Jul 2012)  Page(s) 45.  
 
R. luciae (Fig.1. m. faint, hardly noticeable scent) ....
....the fragrances which the nine roses below give off were not so intense. They lacked highly fragrant components, and the amounts of the volatiles these roses emit were low: R. acicularis, R. nipponensis, R. fujisanensis, R. onoei var. hakonensis, R. onoei var. oligantha, R. paniculigera, R. luciae, R. luciae f. glandulifera and R. hirtula.

Website/Catalog  (2006)  
 
Teriha-No-Ibara (Shiny Leaved Field Briar) R. luciae Rochebr. et Franch. ex Crép. (syn. =R. wichuraiana Crép.)
Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 10:324 (1871)
Distribution: Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
R. luciae is usually found on the seashore, or on river banks, but sometimes in grassland on high mountains. It blooms later than most other wild roses in section Synstylae. In areas near Tokyo, R. multiflora and R. onoei var. oligantha come in bloom in May, but R. luciae blooms much later, toward mid-June or in early July. It bears white flowers 3 to 3.5 cm across, a little larger than those of R. multiflora. Its inflorescence widely differs in size: some flowers are borne singly, some in large clusters. Shiny round leaflets and canes spreading sideways in a zigzag pattern are its conspicuous features. Its long creeping branches have been inherited by its descendants Wichuraiana Ramblers.

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 111.  Includes photo(s).
 
Teriha-No-Ibara (Shiny Leaved Field Briar) R. luciae Rochebr. et Franch. ex Crép. (syn. =R. wichuraiana Crép.)
Same text as on website

Book  (1 May 2003)  
 
Rosa luciae Franchet & Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique. 10: 324. 1871. ....guang ye qiang wei

Shrubs prostrate, sprawling, or procumbent, 3–5 m. Branches often prostrate, sometimes rooting at nodes; branchlets red-brown, terete, pubescent when young, soon glabrate; prickles scattered, sometimes paired, often tinged with purple-red, curved or nearly straight, to 5 mm, flat, gradually tapering to broad base. Leaves including petiole 5–10 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts lanceolate, margin glandular serrate or dentate, apex shortly acuminate; rachis and petiole shortly prickly, sparsely glandular-pubescent; leaflets 5–7, rarely 9, greenish abaxially, dark green adaxially, elliptic, ovate, or obovate, 1–3 × 0.7–1.5 cm, glabrous, abaxially with prominent midvein, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin remotely serrate, apex rounded-obtuse or acute. Flowers numerous in corymb or solitary, 1.5–3 cm in diam.; pedicel 6–10 mm, with peduncle sparsely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, rarely sparsely glandular-pubescent; bracts caducous, ovate. Hypanthium subglobose, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Sepals 5, tardily deciduous, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, abaxially subglabrous, adaxially densely pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals 5, white or pink, fragrant, obovate, base cuneate, apex rounded-obtuse. Styles connate into column, exserted, slightly longer than stamens, pubescent. Hip purple-black-brown, globose or subglobose, 6–18 mm in diam., shiny, sparsely glandular-pubescent. Fl. Apr–Jul, fr. Oct–Nov.

Thickets, sea cliffs, coasts, on limestone; sea level to 500 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang [Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Philippines].

1 Petals white; flowers 2–3 cm in diam. ....var. luciae
+ Petals pink; flowers ca. 1.5 cm in diam. .... var. rosea

Book  (2003)  Page(s) 154.  
 
Rosa luciae

Article (magazine)  (2000)  
 
R. luciae and its 4 varieties (R. luciae var. fujisanensis, R. luciae var. onoei, R. luciae var. hakonensis and R. luciae var. paniculigera) formed one clade that is consistent with their similar morphological characters. In this clade, R. luciae and its 2 varieties (R. luciae var. fujisanensis and R. luciae var. onoei) showed a closer relationship, while R. luciae var. hakonensis and R. luciae var. paniculigera are reluctantly separated from them.

Book  (1995)  Page(s) 43.  
 
Grows at Sissinghurst.

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 209, 220.  
 
Page 209: Rosa wichuraiana is a most valuable plant for many purposes, for ground-cover on banks and borders, or as a dense rambler, and it does not flower until summer is well advanced... Rosa luciae is closely related, or synonymous [on Page 236, Thomas states: botanically, R. luciae and R. wichuraiana are synonymous...]
Pages 219-220: R. wichuraiana Rosa luciae of some authors, also Rosa luciae var. wichuraiana... introduced in 1891 from Japan, but is also found wild in Korea, Formosa, and eastern China... It lies prostrate on the ground, which it covers with trailing stems, rooting as they grow, and bears numerous small, shining, dark green leaves... These make a splendid ground-cover and background to the clusters of flowers, which are small, single, white with rich yellow stamens... [they] do not appear until late summer, usually in August... one of the parents of the new tetraploid species R. kordesii

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 39.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 128.  
 
R. luciae Used by Barbier & Cie of Orleans, France, to raise a group of beautiful, large-flowered Ramblers. Rosa luciae is a trailing species from Japan [and was selected by Barbier & Cie] as the source of the climbing habit and for its glossy, dark green, evergreen foliage.