Article (magazine)  (2008)  Page(s) 65.  
 
Table 3.
R. davidii Crep. Assigned DNA ploidy=6 Published Ploidy=4

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 50.  
 
Rosa davidii /’Rosier du Père David’ /’Father David’s Rose’ = robustes tiges armées de longs aiguillons pointus, élargis à la base… feuilles, de 7 à 9 folioles, profondément nervurées… vert effleuré de bleu sur la pubescence du revers… odorantes… Tibet, 1908.

Book  (1984)  Page(s) 106.  
 
Rosa davidii Crép. = Chine occidentale, introduit en 1908. Feuilles: 7 ou 9 folioles elliptiques allongées, 2 à 4cm de long, bords à dents simples. Fleurs: 4 à 5cm de diamètre… corymbes paniculés… Tiges d’un vert doux… aiguillons dispersés, droits, élargis à la base et rougeâtres. Les feuilles mates, très veinées et foncées sur l’endroit… revers velus et bleutés… grands corymbes de fleurs rose mauve, et dont le style ressort si curieusement… fruits (2cm de long) en forme de bouteille, rouge écarlate. Ce rosier est intéressant à cause de sa floraison très tardive (fin juillet seulement).

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 32.  
 
Rose davidii  A useful, late-flowering variety with soft pink flowers, followed by flaggon shaped heps borne all along each stem, sometimes in clusters. Upright and vigorous with heavily veined light green foliage.  1908. F. W. Shade tolerant.  (S) 10 x 5’

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 84-85.  
 
R. davidii Crép.
A deciduous shrub of loose, spreading habit 6 to 12 ft high; young shoots glabrous, armed...with scattered, straight, or slightly curved, spines. Leaves up to 6 in. or more long, composed of five to eleven (usually seven or nine) leaflets....dark green and glabrous above...downy beneath....Flowers bright rose-pink, 1½ to 2 in. wide...each flower on a slender, downy, more or less glandular stalk...Fruits pendulous, scarlet red, bottle-shaped, ¾ in. long.
Native to western and central China and S.E. Tibet; introduced by Wilson in 1903 and again in 1908. It is allied to R. macrophylla, but the flowers are usually more numberous in each inflorescence and smaller....It is handsome in autumn, when laden with its pendulous clusters of bright red fruits.

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 229.  
 
R. davidii

One of the type of R macrophylla,, and therefore notable for its hips, bright red and large, the old sepals playing their trick of elongation. the flowers are pink. The stems grow stout and strong up to about head high, and then reach out from the plant in a great arch. R davidii comes from the area where China joins the east of Tibet.

Edit: Included in the chapter titled: Cinnamomeae and Hybrids.

Book  (1940)  Page(s) 442.  
 
R. Davidi Crép. Shrub to 3 m.; stems with straight stout scattered prickles 4-6 mm. long, much enlaged at the base: lfts. 7-9, rarely 11, elliptic to ovate-oblong, 2-4, rarely 6 cm. long, simply serrate, glabrous above, glaucescent and puberulous beneath; rachis puberulous, sparingly prickly: fls. pink, 3.5-5 cm. across, corymose; pedicels like the oblong receptacle glandular-bristly or sometimes only puberulous; styles exserted about 3 mm.: fr. ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 1.5-2 cm. long, with long neck, scarlet. Fl.VI-VII. B.M.8679(c). G.C.78:423. W. China. Intr. 1908. Zone V.

Book  (1938)  Page(s) 30.  
 
Alister Clark.  A Walk Around "Glenara"
Here I grow Rosa Caudata and Rosa Davidii from seeds sent to me by the late E. H. Wilson, of the Arnold Arboretum. The hips always evoke interest at the Autumn Show.

Website/Catalog  (1937)  Page(s) 106.  
 
Park Roses...Rosa Davidii, deep pink, single, 150-250 cm. May-July

Website/Catalog  (1929)  Page(s) 69.  
 
Rose Species
Rosa Davidi, Crépin. (Western China.) Flowers pink, 1½ to 2 inches across, borne in clusters by a strong-growing shrub 10 feet high, armed with strong, straight thorns.