Newsletter  (Aug 2014)  Page(s) 17-18.  
 
The species R. banksiae normalis, sometimes called The Wild Banks Rose, ostensibly was discovered and brought back to Europe from Wushan in 1877 by botanist Dr. Albert Regel. This single white rose, growing from forty to fifty feet high, is considered the original banksiae species. In the wild, it usually sports prickles but not so on the cultivated form. It seems, however, to have been in Europe long before 1877. Gardens along the Riviera as well as in Switzerland and Italy were already growing this single, fragrant white rose. As indicated above, the single white and single yellow varieties were often seedlings of double banksiae roses. Yet banksiae normalis may go back another eighty years from its usual date of introduction.
According to Mr. E. H. Woodall in the November 1909 issue of the Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, he found what seemed a R. banksiae growing against a wall of Megginch Castle, Strathtay, Scotland in 1905. After taking cuttings and growing the rose in Nice, France, he found it to be R. banksiae normalis. Making inquiries of Captain Drummond of Megginch, he was informed that an ancestor Robert Drummond, who had sailed to China with his brother Admiral Sir W. Drummond in 1796, had brought back various plants, including the single white banksiae. If this story is true, then indeed the species form of banksiae roses, not ‘White Lady Banks’, was the first to be discovered by Westerners.

Newsletter  (Feb 2012)  Page(s) 8.  
 
[From "China in California: Dr. Wang at Quarryhill", by Darrel g.h. Schramm, pp. 8-9]
Our white, single ‘Lady Banks’ rose, R. banksiae v. normalis, grows without prickles; in the wilds of China, according to Dr. Wang, the canes have “large thorns.”

Article (magazine)  (2009)  Page(s) 30.  
 
R. banksiae normalis Regel  Source RJBM [Réal Jardin Botanico Madrid] Chromosome Number 14

Book  (2006)  Page(s) 41.  
 
Liu et al. (1982) studied the oxygenated portion of Qi Li xiang rose (Rosa banksia normalis) oil and identified following compounds: α-ionone, dihydro α-ionone,...5,6,7,7a-tetra hydro-4,4,7a trimethyl-2 (4H)-benzofuranone, n-hexyle benzoate, benzyl caprate, 1-hexadecane, 2-pentadecanone, benzyl laurate, 9,17-octadecdienal, 1-eicosyne, benzyl arachidate, benzyl myristate, di-n-octyl phtalate, benzyl stearate, benzyl palmitate, benzyl behanate,...

Article (magazine)  (2001)  Page(s) 393.  
 
R. banksiae Ait. var. normalis Regel Ploidy 2x
Pollen fertility 99.2%
Selfed Fruit set 0%

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 48.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa banksiae normalis = blanc. Des 4 formes de Rosa banksiae en culture aujourd’hui, c’est sans doute l’espèce sauvage. En climat favorisé ou sous abri, elle s’élève à 9m de hauteur. Ses petites fleurs simples, blanc pur, odorantes, s’ouvrent en bouquet en fin de printemps, parmi les feuilles vert clair à 5 folioles ovales lancéolées. Chine vers 1877.

Book  (Nov 1998)  Page(s) 13.  
 
R. banksiae normalis The last of the four Banksian roses to be introduced... considered to be the true species. Flowers: single, white...

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Flowers: white … found wild in central China … once-blooming

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 29.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 136.  
 
location glasshouse, R. banksiae Aiton var. normalis Regel, BANKSIANAE, western China, Sichuan, 1796, white, single, fragrant, small, climbing, to 6 m, in origin to 15 m, not hardy