Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 19.  
 
Rosa multibracteata, an “odd-looking species,” according to Wilson’s observations, seemed limited to the upper stretches of the Min Valley and the Tung Valley near the China-Tibet border. Telltale of this “pretty pink” rose are the many crowded bracts (those small, pale green modified leaflets beneath the flowers) and the numerous, small leaflets on twiggy stems. Harkness described these dainty roses as “small stars of pink with yellow stamens.” They appear both solitary and in terminal clusters. Their hips are orange-red. A late bloomer, the plant grows into a pleasingly rounded shrub about six feet high and about twice as wide.

Article (magazine)  (2007)  Page(s) 370, fig. 1.  
 
R. multibracteata typical ploidy 4x

Book  (1 May 2003)  
 
Rosa multibracteata Hemsley & E. H. Wilson, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1906: 157. 1906.
Rosa latibracteata Boulenger; R. orbicularis Baker; R. reducta Baker; R. rotundibracteata Cardot.
Shrubs to 2.5 m tall. Branchlets terete, slender, glabrous; prickles scattered and in pairs below leaves, terete, straight, to 1 cm, abruptly tapering to turgid base. Leaves including petiole 5–9 cm; stipules large, mostly adnate to petiole, free parts ovate, glabrous, margin glandular serrate, apex shortly acuminate; rachis and petiole glabrous or sparsely glandular-pubescent and puberulous, sparsely shortly prickly; leaflets (5–)7–9, ovate, obovate, or suborbicular, 8–15 × 5–10 mm, glabrous or abaxially sparsely pubescent along veins, sometimes glandular, with prominent midvein and lateral veins, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, margin simply serrate, entire near base, apex rounded-obtuse or acute. Flowers 2 or 3, or several in corymb or panicle, rarely solitary, (2–)3–5 cm in diam.; pedicel 0.5–3 cm, densely stipitate glandular; bracts 3–5 or 8–10 in two whorls at base of corymb, those of external whorl ovate, those of internal one lanceolate, glabrous, margin glandular serrulate. Hypanthium subglobose, stipitate glandular. Sepals 5, triangular-lanceolate, 1.1–1.5 cm, leaflike, abaxially glabrous or sparsely to densely stipitate pubescent, adaxially densely pubescent, margin entire. Petals 5, reddish, obovate, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles free, slightly exserted, nearly equaling stamens, villous. Hip red, subglobose, 6–10 mm in diam.; stipitate glandular, with persistent, erect sepals. Fl. May–Jul, fr. Jul–Oct.
Open places near forest margins; 2100--2500 m. Sichuan, Yunnan.

Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 393.  
 
R. multibracteata Hemsl. et Wils. Ploidy 4x
Pollen fertility 8.7%
Selfed Fruit set 0%

Book  (Mar 1998)  Page(s) 15.  Includes photo(s).
 
Photo of hips

Book  (1993)  Page(s) 77.  Includes photo(s).
 
[Listed under "Wild Roses and Their Cultivars"] Description. A Chinese rose … collected by Wilson in the Min Valley in 1908. Flowers appear in late summer. Height: 6 ft.

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 161.  
 
location 229, R. multibracteata Hemsl. & Wils., CINNAMOMEAE, western China, Sichuan, 1910, bright light pink, single, small, solitary or cluster-flowered, floriferous, late-blooming, with many bracts, vigorous, arching, broad, branched, 2.5-4 m, dark green small foliage, 7 leaflets, light orange-redsmall-mediumstrongly glandularovoid tobottle-shaped fruit, upright persistent sepals, many hips

Website/Catalog  (1986)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Rosa multibracteata.  A vigorous, late-flowering shrub with grey-green foliage.  Flowers small, flower stalks with a multitude of grey bracts.  Lilac-pink, single. 1910. P. W. Shade tolerant (S) 8 x 5’. 

Book  (1985)  Page(s) 116.  
 
[Mathias Tantau, the elder] became interested in breeding with a wild rose from China... a rose with small, dainty leaves and clouds of little pink flowers, called R. multibracteata. He knew, for all rose breeders know it, that for such a project one should allow at least twenty years; in fact it was twenty-three years before his son reaped the reward of that initiative... 'Garnette' was a marvellous discovery for Mathias Tantau, a red rose with hard petals; it came out in Germany in 1947, and in 1951 was introduced by the Jackson & Perkins Co. in America. A most successful cut flower on account of its durability... Quite a cult arose around 'Garnette'... the growers of cut roses planted glasshouses full of it, and began to discover mutations, of which 'Pink Garnette', from Boerner in 1951, and 'Carol Amling', from Amling & Beltran in 1953, were fairly similar in deep pink. Some nurseries began to offer 'Garnette Roses' in othe rcolours, but apart from having small flowers, most of these had little affinity to the original...

Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 37.  
 

Rosa multibracteata.....single flowers....