Magazine  (Dec 2021)  Page(s) 23. Vol 43, No. 4.  
 
Editor:  .....Ten Thousand Camellias China. (We don’t know whether this is the same as the Ten Thousand Lights.....

Article (magazine)  (2015)  Page(s) 7.  
 
An extraordinary old China rose is again from Lijiang - the 'China Rose of the Temple of the Ten Thousand Camellia'. This lovely rose shows the typical color change from pink to red as the flower matures, is very fertile and vigorous and a must for warm climate rose breeding.

Magazine  (2009)  Page(s) 17, Vol 31, No. 3.  
 
Helga Brichet: Five Yuan (One Thousand Lights'?). This cultivar was first noticed by a group of Italian rosarians visiting Yunnan near the Temple of 10,000 Camellias. It is a truly wonderful rose and plant which easily becomes a climber if left to do as it wishes. The colour change of the drooping petals is very marked, as too the perfume. Prickles are few and far between.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 28, 160.  
 
p. 28: "In the 'Quest for the Rose' (Phillips & Rix) we had read about the Monastery of the 10,000 Camellias (Bai masi), on the lower slopes of a South facing hill. We wanted to know whether the beautiful Chinensis hybrid described and illustrated in " The Quest for the Rose' still existed. It was there indeed; and old gnarled plant growing against the retaining wall of the monastery garden. It produces semi-double dark pink flowers of medium to small size which aging become purple-red, from April - December. It has long slightly serrated leaves;flowers are produced on very this stalks. In the Lijiang Botanical Garden a woman gardener had a few plants of this rose;by paying her five Yuan we obtained some cuttings, which have rooted and from which grew four bushes. Two we gave away, two are in our garden, and have grown to m.1.50-1.80. It is the most floriferous rose we know."

p. 160: Rose of the 10,000 Camellias Monastery
.....our trip to Yunnan, where we got cuttings of these plants. One of the best roses we found in China! An erect evergreen shrub with green branches, m. 1.50 x 1.20, few thorns, dense light green shiny pointed leaves, slightly serrated. Continuous flowering, April to December, of individual 10-12 petals semi-double blooms, opening cyclamen pink, slowly becoming dark crimson. Planted in 2 large vases, their roots have pierced the terracotta bottom, and we had to build a flower bed around them.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 160.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa del Monastero delle 10.000 Camelie
Ne parliamo diffusamente raccontado del nostro viaggio in Yunnan. Una delle migliore rose trovato in Cina, piantata per talea in Italia. Proviene da un monastero confuciano a Km. 10 da Lijiyang, Yunnan. Cespuglio sepreverde m. 1.20 x 1.00, poche spine, foglie verde chiaro di grandezza media, leggera seghettatura sul bordo. Fiori individuali a 10 petali prodotti continuamente da aprile a dicembre, somiglianti a farfalle. Appena aperti hanno colore ciclamino, ma con il passare dei giorni diventano più scuri. In vaso.

Translation:
Rose of the 10,000 Camellias Monastery
We talked extensively about our trip to Yunnan. One of the best roses we found in China, planted by cuttings in Italy.  It comes from a Confucian monastery 10 km from Lijiyang, Yunnan. Evergreen shrub 1.20 x 1.00 m  few prickles, light green foliage of medium size, slight serration on the edge. Solitary 10-petalled flowers produced continuously from April to December, resembling butterflies. As soon as they are opened they have a cyclamen color, but as the days go by they become darker. Potted.
 

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 51.  
 
10,000 Camellias Red China Rose. "We found this superb, deep red, semi-double China Rose growing in the temple in the foothills a few miles outside Lijiang. It shows that there certainly are China Roses way up in the mountains of Yunnan that are not in cultivation in the West. It was just coming into flower as the season is quite a bit later at this altitude."