Article (newsletter)  (Nov 2017)  Page(s) 18.  
 
The flowers of R. odorata var. gigantea f. erubescens, produces smaller, pale pink flowers.

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 563.  
 
Rosa odorata var. erubescens (Focke) T. T. Yu et T. C. Ku...Scandent shrubs, evergreen or semievergreen [Distribution map]

Book  (2011)  Page(s) 7-8.  Includes photo(s).
 
Wang Guoliang. Rare Chinese Rose Species and Ancient Cultivars.
Rosa odorata var. elubescens [erubescens]. This very double, vigorous rose is easily found in Lijiang's mountain forests, near streams and waysides, and even in the park in Bingzhongluo of Gongga Snow Mountain. Evergreen through the four seasons even in Nanjing, it has red branches and the main canes are a light green. The leaves are leathery and waxy with wavy margins. The stipule is vase-like, and the free parts are curved like the horns of an ox. This huge climbing shrub when grown without support becomes a mushroom-shaped, top-heavy tree. In a monastery I once discovered a plant of this rose that measured 65.6 feet (20 metres) in height. It was blooming profusely, and its clusters of pink flowers, each 4 inches (10 centimeters) wide, sparkled against the blue sky. The showiest part is its flower, which varies from cup-shaped to high-centered, and which has overlapping petals something like an English rose. While exploring in China with Martyn Rix, Roger Phillips stopped in his tracks to sit beside her. In his and Rix's book The Quest for the Rose Phillips wrote, "I wanted to be photographed finding this rose....it makes the whole trip worthwhile." What would they have said if they had seen the largest plant of it I ever found - a rose some 12 inches (30 centimeters) in diameter and about 60 feet (18.3 meters) in height? They might have asked why such an excellent rose wasn't sent with the Four Stud China Roses to Europe 200 years ago.

Article (magazine)  (2011)  
 
Rosa odorata var. erubescens voucher MJ-295 psbA-trnH intergenic spacer, partial sequence; chloroplast.

Article (magazine)  (2011)  Page(s) 158.  
 
The other three varieties [of Rosa odorata] (aside from the typical variety) have double to semi-double-petaled flowers, are found mainly in human-disturbed areas in the Yunnan province of China and are occasionally cultivated in other areas
....Rosa odorata var. erubescens (2n = 2x = 14, or 2n = 3x = 21; Jian et al. 2010) has pink to pale pink flowers and is distributed in the northwestern Yunnan province....

Table 1 The main morphological characters, distribution information, and chromosome number of varieties of R. odorata and R. chinensis, with respective names taken from Hurst's (1941) descriptions
R. odorata var. erubescens; 2n="x, 3x = 14, 21; Double, Pale pink, NW Yunnan in China; [Name from Hurst's descriptions] Parsons' Pink China

Booklet  (2009)  Page(s) 38-39.  
 
Another recent study found that an R. odorata var. gigantea and R. odorata var. erubescens had an SSR-based similarity coefficient of ̴0.64 (Tang et al., 2008).

Book  (1 May 2003)  
 
Rosa odorata var. erubescens (Focke) T. T. Yu & T. C. Ku in T. T. Yü, Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 37: 424. 1985.
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Rosa gigantea f. erubescens Focke, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 7: 68. 1911; R. odorata var. gigantea f. erubescens (Focke) Rehder & E. H. Wilson.
Flowers double, 3–6 cm in diam. Petals pale pink.
2000--2500 m. NW Yunnan (Dali Xian, Lijiang Naxizu Zizhixian).

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 33.  
 
Rosa gigantea....Forrest reported forms with yellow or pink flowers on bushes not more than 2 m tall, in north-western Yunnan, in the Dali and Lijiang valley (f. erubescens Rehder & Wilson).

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 290.  
 
R. gigantea.....f. erubescens Focke. Flowers single, blush to dark pink, smaller, recurrent. (= R. odorata f. erubescens [Focke] Rehd. & Wils.). W. China. May be an ancester of both the pink and the yellow Tea Roses. Tender.

Book  (1965)  Page(s) 95.  
 
A pink form or hybrid is called R. gigantea erubescens.