Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 39.  
 
Rosa spinosissima ....4 x 3’ 

Website/Catalog  (1983)  Page(s) 39.  
 

Rosa spinosissima pimpinellifolia ....4 x 3’. 

Website/Catalog  (1982)  
 
R. spinosissima L. 2n=28

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 35.  
 
Rosa spinosissima A charming, single, Burnet rose growing to 3-ft. and bearing masses of creamy-white flowers followed by blackish heps.  Of great antiquity.  G. H. W. F. Shade tolerant. (S) 3 x 3’.

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 35.  
 

Rosa spinosissima pimpinellifolia A free spreading bushy plant with fern-like foliage and ample spines. Small, single, white flowers. An old rose. G. H. W. F. Shade tolerant. (S) 3 x 3’.

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 180.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. tschatyrdagi Chrshan. - according to "Flora Europa" R. pimpinellifolia L.; according to Galushko = R. myriacantha DC.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 352-353.  
 
R.myriacantha DC, ex Lam. et DC, Fl. Fr., ed. 3, IV (1805) 439; M.B., Fl. taur.-cauc. 111(1819)337; Crep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. XIX (1880) 225. — R. pimpinellifolia var. myriacantha Ser. in DC, Prodr. 11(1825)608; Ldb., Fl. Ross. 11(1844)74; Rgl. in A. H. P. V, f . II (1878)307; Crep., I.e. XXI (1882) 9, 10; Christ in Boiss., Fl. Or. Suppl. (1888) 206; Bouleng. in Bull. Jard. Bot. de Bruxelles XIII (1935) 174.
Shrub; prickles and pricklets as a rule very abundant, approximate, often very few (some specimens unarmed); leaflets 5—11, often 7, 10— 24 mm long, orbicular, twice as long as broad, glandular, at least along midrib beneath, teeth (rarely only partly) compound -glandular, 8—16 at each side; pedicels 10—30 mm long, smooth or more or less prickly and glandular, resembling the often hispid hypanthium; sepals 8—13 mm long, dorsally more or less glandular or acicular -glandular; corolla white, 30— 50 mm in diameter; fruit globose or slightly broader than long, 8—13 mm long. June-July.
European part: Crim. (mainly in the Yaila Mountains, but also found near Bakhchisarai); Caucasus: W., E. and S. Transc. Gen. distr.: Med. Described from S. France (vicinity of Montpellier). Type in Geneva.
Note . In the districts of Ai-Petri and Kokkoz, there are often encountered less typical forms, with glands confined to midrib and teeth only, partially bidentate (entire teeth prevail). Similar intermediate forms also grow in other localities; one of these, R.rupincola Fisch. ex Sweet, Hort, Brit. ed. II (1830) 180, is widely distributed in W. Siberia, where R. myriacantha does not grow. Generally speaking, like the whole series Spinosissimae, forms of the type R. myriacantha also require special study. For the present, it should be pointed out that forms identical with the authentic R. myriacantha DC. from Montpellier are apparently not encountered in the USSR; Bieberstein named the ordinary Crimean form in schedis R.polyacantha M.B., but by the rules of nomenclature this name is disqualified.

Magazine  (May 1959)  Page(s) 2. trimester, p. 5.  Includes photo(s).
 
Ainsi, la mélancolique « alpina » présente une urne étirée, amincie, « efféminée », d'une sveltesse attendrissante ; la « Lemani », une ampoule enfantée avec amour, d'une régularité minutieuse, décorée d'un réseau de minuscules glandes ; la rude « squarrosa », une outre ventrue, non dépourvue de rustique élégance ; certaine « multiflore », promue au plan majeur par la culture, un cratère globuleux, éclatant d'or et d'orgueil ; la « spinosissima », emmitouflée d'une mousse d'épines dérisoires, une sorte de eruebon bonasse, gonflé à craquer dans son vêtement violet.

Book  (1954)  
 
At this point the topic of the puzzling rose described by Smith as Rosa rubella was raised. This species (?) was erected in 1810 on the basis of Durham material, and its status has ever since been a problem to rhodologists. By comparisons made point by point with Smith's and other descriptions, and by a direct consideration of Winch's specimens, the speaker showed that in every respect R. rubella agreed with certain segregates in the F2 R. sherardi x spinosissima lots, as did his own R. rivalis described from Wheel Birks plants. He had, therefore, no hesitation in regarding R. rubella and R. rivalis as naturally occurring hybrids originating in a cross between R. sherardi and R. spinosissima. Obviously, since F2 plants so reared are fertile, the generation to which they belong remains undecided. Professor Heslop Harrison stated that in his opinion, based on certain experimental data, they actually belonged to the F2 lot.

Website/Catalog  (1942)  Page(s) 25.  
 
Species Roses
R. Spinosissima—The Scotch rose, with single pink blooms set thickly along the stems. About two feet high.