Book  (1988)  Page(s) 136.  
 
location 147/1, 22 6/4; R. beggeriana Schrenk, CINNAMOMEAE, western China to Iran, central Asian part of USSR, 1868, white, single, mild fragrance, small, cluster-flowered, floriferous, late-blooming, bushy, upright-arching, branched, 1-2.5 m, suckers, few prickles, dark green small matte foliage, 7-9 leaflets, purple-red-black small rounded fruit, extended sepals, ripe very early, fall off complete

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 179.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. silverhjelmii Schrenk - according to Kotschkarewa a synonym for R. beggeriana Bge., according to McFarland R. beggeriana Bge.; according to Rehder R. beggeriana Bge.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 344.  Includes photo(s).
 
R.beggeriana Schrenk, Enum. pi. nov. (l84l) 73; Ldb., Fl. Ross. II, 82; Crep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. XIV (1875) 15; ibid. XV (1876) 56 et XXVII (1888) 2; Christ, in Boiss., Fl. Or. Suppl. (l888) 208. - R. silverhjelmii Schrenk, Bull. Ac. St.-Petersb. II (l847) 195. - R. lehmanniana Bge. PL Lehm. (I85l) 287. — R. beggeriana var. genuina, var. silverhjeImii var. lehmanniana Crep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. XIV (1875) 20. — R. cinnamomea var. sewerzowi Rgl. in A. H. P.V, fasc. 2 (1878) 326.— R.laxa var. alatavica, karatavica var. sewerzowi Rgl., I.e. 331. — R. beggeriana R.Keller in Verb. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. XLVI (l904) 94 p. p. cum varr. plur.
Shrub, 1— 2.5 m high, with suberect, delicate, glaucescent branches armed with equal, often large, slightly or usually strongly falcately curved prickles broadened at base, yellowish, thin or often strong, sessile in pairs at base, sometimes, especially in lower part of shoots, with a mixture of prickles; leaves 2 — 12 em long; leaflets (5)7— 9(ll), small, usually 1 — 3 cm long, ovate, ovate -oblong or elliptic, orbicular or tapering at base, orbicular or acuminate at apex, glabrous or like petioles very short-pubescent beneath, sometimes very finely glandular, simple or nearly duplicate -dentate, with
10—20 short, ovate teeth on each side; stipules of lower leaves narrow, broadening toward inflorescence, pubescent, with triangular auricles; petioles often with small prickles, sometimes glandular. Flowers often in many -flowered compound corymbs or panicles, 2— 4 cm in diameter, pedicels rather long, to 2.5 cm long, like outer side of sepals glabrous or pubescent, sometimes remotely glandular, with ovate -lanceolate, minute bracts; hypanthia globose or ovoid, glabrous or sparingly pubescent; sepals entire, acuminate, spreading or suberect after anthesis; petals pale; styles short, with an orbicular tomentose head; fruit 0.5—1.4 cm long, small, frequently globose like a pea, often ovoid, smooth, red or sometimes blackish, with caducous disk and sepals caducous at ripening, leaving an opening in upper part of fruit which perinits a view of the exposed achenes and the tiny hairs encircling them. June— July. (Plate XXIX, Figure 3).
Mountain slopes, banks of streams and brooks, roadsides, fences, forest edges.— Centr. Asia: Dzu.-Tarb., T.Sh., Pam.-Al. Gen. distr.: Iran, Afghanistan, Beludzhistan, Dzu.-Kash. Described from Dzhungaria, from the Kok-su River. Type in Leningrad.
Economic importance. In Central Asia, this plant is often cultivated as an ornamental and on enclosures. Its tiny petals contain almost a record amount of ascorbic acids, ca. 8.75% per dry weight of pulp.
Note. This is an extremely polymorphic species which surely will one day require further division. Though R. Keller (l. c.) gave it special attention, it is difficult to make use of his work because, firstly, he certainly confused it with other species (among them such totally different species as R.alberti and R. laxa, not to mention hybrids), and, secondly, his superficial separation of numerous varieties, based on an arbitrary choice of characters, often led to spurious unions between dissimilar forms.

Magazine  (Aug 1950)  Page(s) 43.  
 
135540. Rosa Cabulica Boiss.
No. 5069. From Kabul, November, 20, 1939. A rose, that becomes 20 feet high, with virgate stems, leaves of 5 to 7 ovate leaflets and terminal white flowers 3 inches across, solitary or in corymbs. Related to Rosa beggeriana. Native to Afghanistan.

Website/Catalog  (1949)  
 
"ROSA BEGGERIANA - small flowers, pure white, fertile, a native of the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet, hardy in Northern Saskatchewan. This is the only wild rose species I know that combines hardiness and fall blooming - surely a miracle. It will have ripe hips, green hips, flowers and buds, all at the same time. Is of promise for breeding."

Percy Wright Catalogue - Hardy and Semi-Hardy Roses - p. 12

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 445.  
 
R. Beggeriana Schrenk. Much-branched shrub to 2.5 m.; stems with hooked paired and scattered prickles: lfts. 5-9, oval or elliptic-obovate, 8-25 mm. long, simply serrate, pubescent beneath or glabrous, bluish or grayish green; fls. in several- or many-fld. corymbs, rarely solitary, white, rarely pink, 2-3 cm. across; pedicels and receptacle glandular or smooth; fr. subglobose, 6-8 mm. across, red, finally dark purple. Fl. VI; fr.VIII-IX. W.R.171.t(c). I.T: 5:t:122. S.H.1:f.325i-k, ¹326k-1. N. Persia to Altai and Song. Intr. 1881. Zone III.

Book  (1934)  Page(s) 267.  
 
Beggeriana (species), 1888.- White; vigorous; bush; S. wall; prune very little; single flowered.

Book  (1933)  Page(s) 61.  
 
R. beggeriana - Central China. The oddest of all species; blooms of no interest, but the small foliage, almost the color of Koster Blue Spruce, and the crimson thorns make the bush conspicious. Good for the shrubbery or as specimen.

Book  (1930)  Page(s) 405.  
 
Beggerana Schrenk. Northern Persia to Tsungaria. Shrub up to 2 ½ m tall. Bloom white, 2 to 3 cm across, in June-July. Fruit dark red.

Website/Catalog  (1923)  Page(s) 49.  
 
Rosa Beggeriana (Schrenk, 1841). A vigorous sort orginating in Asia with small single blooms.