Article (website)  (13 Aug 2007)  
 
R. × hibernica Templeton = R. canina L. s.l. × R. spinosissima L. = R. spinosissima L. × R. canina L. s.l. – Northern Ireland to Schottland since 1802; compare. R. × glabra Wolley-Dod = R. × hibernica Templeton var. glabra Baker ?

Website/Catalog  (2006)  Page(s) 49, 86.  
 
R. x hibernica Templeton = R. canina L. x R. spinosissima L. (compare also R. glabra Wolley-Dod = R. x hibernica Templeton var. glabra Baker?)

Book  (1997)  Page(s) 64, 129, 130.  Includes photo(s).
 
p. 64: R. x hibernica a good shrub rose which can be kept trimmed for ornamental hedges...
pp. 129-130: [Photo p. 130] R. x hibernica, 'Hibernica'... Templeton (Ireland) 1765. R. pimpinellifolia x R. canina...discovered in Ireland at the end of the 18th century but now thought to be extinct there in the wild... its superb hips are coloured like those of R. canina and shaped like those of R. pimpinellifolia... The flowers are single, medium-sized and bright pink in colour... [Beales is testing Templeton's original]

Book  (Nov 1994)  Page(s) 83.  
 
R. x hibernica 1802. Rosa canina X R. pimpinellifolia. Mrs. Gore, in The Rose Fancier's Manual, 1838, mentions the "the environs of Belfast produce an insignificant shrub, known as the Rose Hibernica, for the discovery of which Mr. templeton received a premium of fifty guineas from the Botanical Society of Dublin, as being a new indigenous plant." ....a large bush with greysih leaves and cream-pink single flowers, leaning considerably toward R. canina...about 6 feet by 10 feet.

Book  (Apr 1993)  Page(s) 244.  
 
Hibernica Misc Old Garden Rose, pale pink, (R. x hibernica Templeton); R. canina x R. spinosissima; before 1800 in great Britain. Description.

Book  (Feb 1993)  Page(s) 41.  Includes photo(s).

Book  (Aug 1990)  Page(s) 51.  
 
Rosa x hibernica may be the Wild Irish Rose discovered near Belfast in 1802... Parentage: R. canina x R. spinosissima
aka 'Wild Irish Rose'

Book  (1988)  Page(s) 155.  
 
location 112/2, 150/3, R. x hibernica Templeton (R. canina x R. pimpinellifolia), PIMPINELLIFOLIAE, northern Ireland, Scotland, 1802, pink, center light pink, single, mild fragrance, small-medium, cluster-flowered, vigorous, bushy, upright, broad, 1-2.5 m, dark green matte leathery foliage, 5-7 leaflets, orange-red small-medium glossy urn-shaped to pear-shaped fruit, upright persistent long sepals

Website/Catalog  (1985)  Page(s) 40.  
 
Rosa x hibernica.....1795

Website/Catalog  (1982)  Page(s) 33.  
 

Rosa hibernica  A medium sized shrub. Globose deep red fruit preceded by smallish flowers of conspicuous shell pink. 1802.  F.  Shade tolerant. (S) 5 x 5’.