Book  (2018)  Page(s) 534.  
 
Rosa beggeriana Schrenk
..Iran, Afghanistan, western Pakistan, Tien Shan, and in our country in Central Anatolia at Amasya, Erzincan, Elazığ....
[these areas in Turkey are populated by Karakeçili nomads, who claim they immigrated from the 11th century onwards from the Merw region of Turkmenistan - the Silk Road connected Merw with Tien Shan]

Book  (28 Sep 2017)  Page(s) 40.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa beggeriana [Figs 13 & 14] Distribution: Iran, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan [Fig.14], Pakistan (N. Baluchistan, Chitral, Gilgit, Swat), Kashmir, India (Uttar Pradesh). A composite and very variable species, especially in the type of indumentums, the hairs or down on the stem or leaf. In spite of its variability the species is very easy to recognise by its small fruits. The sepals are often deciduous. The top of the hypanthium is yellowish, and the stems are covered with curved and uniform prickles. The plant bears white, rather small flowers, [Fig.13 & 14], grossly serrate leaflets, and green, often slightly glaucous, stems. Rosa beggeriana hybridises freely with Rosa webbiana, the introgression between these species seems to be common in many regions. Introgression is the transfer of genetic information from one species to another through hybridisation or back crossing. Supposed hybrids and introgressants can be usually recognized by pinkish flowers, and less curved or straight prickles, and larger fruits. Cultivated as an ornamental plant, its small petals are rich in ascorbic acid.

Book  (May 2003)  
 
Rosa beggeriana Schrenk in Fischer & C.A.Meyer, Enum. Pl. Nov. 1: 73. 1841.

Shrubs 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets purple-brown, terete, slightly curved, glabrous; prickles scattered and in pairs below leaves, yellowish, hooked, to 8 mm, slender to stout, gradually tapering to broad base. Leaves including petiole 3–9 cm; stipules mostly adnate to petiole, free parts ovate, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate; rachis and petiole pubescent, sometimes with small prickles; leaflets 5–9, broadly elliptic or elliptic-obovate, 8–25 × 5–12 mm, abaxially pubescent or glabrous, with prominent midvein, adaxially glabrous or pubescent, with concave midvein, base subrounded or broadly cuneate, margin acutely simply serrate, near base entire, apex acute or rounded-obtuse. Flowers several or numerous in corymb or panicle, rarely solitary, 2–3 cm in diam.; pedicel 1–2 cm, glabrous or pubescent, occasionally sparsely glandular-pubescent; bracts 1–3(or 4), ovate, margin glandular serrate, apex acuminate. Hypanthium subglobose, glabrous or pubescent. Sepals 5, deciduous, lanceolate, leaflike, abaxially glandular-pubescent, adaxially densely puberulous, margin entire, apex caudate. Petals 5, white, rarely pink, broadly obovate, base broadly cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles free, much shorter than stamens, villous. Hip red, becoming black-purple, subglobose, rarely ovoid, 6–10 mm in diam., glabrous, after ripening apical part of hypanthium and sepals deciduous together. Fl. May–Jul, fr. Jul–Oct. 2n = 14*.
Slopes, valleys, river sides, roadsides; 900--2000 m. Gansu, Xinjiang [Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia].

Two varieties:
var. lioui T.T.Yu & T.C.Ku leaflets densely pubescent on both surfaces, pedicels and hypanthium pubescent

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 354.  
 
R. beggerana (Begger rose). Distribution: Tarbagatai, Dzhungarskei, Zailiyskei, Kungei, Terskei, Kirghiz, Talasskei Alatau, Ketmentau, Karatau. Use: Medicinal, ornamental, food plant; easily cultured.

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 356.  
 
Begger Rose (Rosa beggeriana Schrenk). This species grows on mountain slopes and along banks of rivers and streams. It is a xero-mesophytic shrub, 3 m high with upright, bluish branches, which have large, sickle-shaped thorns that are wide and yellowish at the base. Leaves consist of three to five bijugate leaflets that ere each 3 cm long, ovate, ovate-oblong, or orbicular, glabrous or slightly pubescent on the under-sides. White flowers are 2 to 3 cm in diameter, borne in complex corymbs and panicles. Spherical, red or brownish-red fruits are 4 to 5 mm in diameter with deciduous sepals upon ripening. Fruits contain vitamins C, E, P, B2, carotene, flavonoids, and are very rich in ascorbic acid from 7,000 to 20,000 mg/100g of fruit. Seeds are rich in oils. Roots contain flavonoids and catechin, and leaves have tannin substances as well as flavonoids.

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 360.  
 
Rosa silverhjelmii Schrenk This is an endemic species that grows in sands on the banks of the alluvial plain of the Chu and Ili river valleys. It is a xerophytic shrub, 1.5 m high, with semi-twisting branches, covered by paired, sickle-shaped thorns widened at the base. Leaves have 2 to 3 narrow-elliptical, glabrous, paired leaflets, 25 mm long, 10 mm wide. White flowers are borne singly or in corymbs. Globular fruits are smooth with very thin walls, 5 to 7 mm in diameter, and black when ripe.

Article (magazine)  (2002)  Page(s) 355.  
 
R. silverhjelmii (Silverheim (Ilijskei) rose). Distribution: Alluvial plains of the rivers Ili, Chu. Use: Endemic species, ornamental plant; easily cultured.

Book  (2001)  Page(s) 448.  
 
Rosa beggeriana Schrenk ex Fisch. & Mey., Enum. pl. nov. (1841) 73.
Rosa anserinaefolia Boiss., Diagn. pl. orient., ser. 1, 6 (1845) 51; R. silverhjelmii Schrenk in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 2(1847) 195; R. lehmanniana Bunge in Mém. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. 7 (1854) 287; R. regelii Reuter, Cat. Grain Jard. Bot. Genève (1867) 4.
Russian roza beggera.
Iran, Middle Asia, Afghanistan, W Pakistan W China.
Because of its high Vitamin C content cultivation and use of the fruits in the Ukraine.
Ref.: Komarov 10, 1941; Vul'f & Maleeva 1969, 566 pp.

Book  (2000)  Page(s) 48.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa beggeriana = Section Les roses sauvages de Peter Beales. Dense et touffu, ce grand arbuste de 2m50 de hauteur hérisse ses tiges d’aiguillons crochus assemblés par paires. Ses feuilles vert grisâtre comptent jusqu’à 9 folioles dentées, ovales lancéolées, de taille moyenne. Ses fleurs simples, blanc pur, d’environ 2,5cm de diamètre, s’ouvrent en début de printemps en menus bouquets denses et n’ont que peu ou pas de parfum. Elles sont suivies de petits fruits globuleux d’un rouge violacé profond en automne. Cet arbuste peu courant a sa place au jardin sauvage. Iran 1868.

Book  (Sep 1993)  Page(s) 18.  
 
Description. Flowers: white, fragrant. Once-blooming. Hips: deep red or purple (hardly bigger than peas)