Newsletter  (Jul 2012)  Page(s) 46.  
 
Ivan Vladimirovich [Micurin] considered rose Mlechnotsvetnaya the best rootstock for varietal roses: R. leucantha Bieb. represents itself, in all respects, as an ideal rootstock for cultivated varieties of roses. Extraordinarily strong growth, even, smooth neck, and rare thorns, the complete absence of root off shoots and outstanding stamina - are the main advantages of this type of rose. Not to mention the fitness/adaptability/ suitability for grafting of stem rose, R. leucantha is simply irreplaceable for ordinary inoculation into the collet. None species of roses accept inoculation of all types of roses on themselves so easily, and there is no stock for grafted

Book  (1976)  Page(s) 178.  
 
Botanical roses on the territory of the USSR, whose independence requires precising...
R. leucantha M. B. - according to Juseptschuk similar to R. klukii Bess.; described in Georgia, but not mentioned in the Flora of Georgia and Flora of the Caucasus pf Grossheim.

Book  (1971)  Page(s) 376.  
 
R. leucantha M. B., Fl. taur.-cauc. Ill (1819),352.
Shrub; leaflets large, obovate, deeply bidentate, glabrous above, pubescent beneath, covered with small glands thinning out toward the leaf margin; pedicels, corolla and sepals remotely glandular beneath, rarely pubescent; sepals with narrow appendage. Otherwise similar to R.klukii Bess. June— July.
Herbaceous hills, thinned -out forests, forest edges.— Caucasus: Cisc, E. Transc. Endemic. Described from Georgia. Type in Leningrad.
Species of unclear systematic position