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'White Pearl in Red Dragon's Mouth' rose References
Magazine  (2014)  Page(s) 37.  
 
Old Rose Survivors. Wild and Untamed.
Reverend Douglas T. Seidel. Rediscovering Mrs. Keays and the Roses of Creek Side.
She wrote in 1935: ....The red one was Sanguinea....
[Seidel: probably what we today call 'Miss Willmott's China" or White Pearl in Red Dragon's Mouth, still to be found as an heirloom in south Florida).
Newsletter  (Feb 2012)  Page(s) 8-9.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "China in California: Dr. Wang at Quarryhill", by Darrel g.h. Schramm, pp. 8-9]
White Pearl in Red Dragon’s Mouth’. This last rose, for instance, tells us that the rose is red with a white center and is a climber, “dragon” referring to a climbing rose. The rose by this name in America, he maintained, is misidentified, for ours is a shrub, not a climber. Still, one wonders if ours is not a sport of the original.
Booklet  (2009)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Diploid...White Pearl in Red Dragon's Mouth, heterozygous loci 64% [Provenance: Vintage Gardens]
Website/Catalog  (2005)  Page(s) 3.  
 
'White Pearl In Red Dragon's Mouth' (Chi Long Han Zhu; China Rose, Ancient, parentage, introducer, date unknown) A twiggy plant, wholly China in character, this rose has probably been cultivated in China for a thousand years or more. Abundant, semi-double, blood-red blooms are cupped to cradle a delicate white “eye,” surrounding richly-golden stamens. This is the “pearl” of wisdom or virtue, carried in Chinese mythology by the scarlet Imperial dragon. Despite its exotic and aristocratic origin, ‘White Pearl In Red Dragon’s Mouth’ is a common find in the Sierra Foothills, where it has more or less naturalized. Continuous-blooming.
Book  (2002)  
 
Everyone knows that the China Rose we call 'Old Blush' has been grown for centuries in California. It has been supposed that it was brought to the Spanish missions by Chinese traders. However, there is another Chinese rose, 'Chi Long Han Zhu,' ('White Pearl in Red Dragon's Mouth') which was only imported from China in the last few years of the 20th Century. 'Chi Long Han Zhu' is now obtainable from several sources in the United States. It was NOT known in the United States prior to its 20th-Century importation from China. HOWEVER, the very knowledgeable Horticulturist Fred Boutin has found what appears to be 'Chi Long Han Zhu' growing as a feral plant in the Sierra Foothills of California
Book  (1991)  Page(s) 121.  
 
If we retrace our steps to the bed of China roses in the First Garden, we shall find several roses of true dark crimson. Direct from China in sendings since the end of the eighteenth century is Chi Long Han Zhu which signifies 'with a pearl in red dragon's mouth' and is also known as 'Willmott's Crimson China'. Not far removed from it but with rather larger and fuller flowers, is the old French hybrid 'Cramoisi Superieur' of 1832. ..... It should be noted that all these roses have flowers of intense dark red but are only faintly scented. The colour darkens with age, which is the wont of R. chinensis var. spontanea itself.
Book  (1935)  Page(s) 95.  
 
A rose called locally "Sanguinea" was growing at Creek side, along the path. There were two old bushes. One had a tree root four inches thick through its huge old roots. If we are correct in calling this rose Sanguinea, and that name is properly given to the R. semperflorens, Old red China is still in rose-life. Going to Redoute as our great stabilizer in this period, we find in his list of red China roses, Rosa Indica Cruenta, Rosier du Bengal a fleurs pourpre-de-sang, La Bengale Sanguine.
The color of the full rose of five or six ranks of petals is velvety red with a touch of white at the base. Foliage a bit rounder than Indica, red in the young leaflets. Prickles red, hooked, sharp, and irregular. Flower stem wiry and curving.

[refer also to the 2014-37 reference]
Book  (1927)  Page(s) 151.  
 
Prof. M. Leslie Hancock. University of Nanking. Roses in China:
....Some names are very difficult of translation; for example "Chi Lung Han Chu" means a fiery red dragon holding a (red) pearl in its gaping jaws, and one can easily picture an open red rose with a center ball of folded petals.
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