Book  (2003)  Page(s) 28.  
 
Rosa cerasocarpa Rolfe

Book  (1981)  Page(s) 71-72.  
 
R. cerasocarpa Rolfe
Semi-climbing..up to 15 ft. high...armed with a few scattered recurved spines. Leaves up to 7 or 8 in. long...three or (usually) five leaflet...Leaflets conspicuously toothed, glabrous...Flowers white...corymbose clusters 6 in. wide...Fruits globose, downy, deep red...
Whether this rose was ever propagated for general distribution it is impossible to say. It seems to be very near to R.rubus - nearer to that species than to R. longicuspis with which Rolfe compared it.
The description of R. cerasocarpa in Boulenger's revision of the Asiatic Synstylae is inaccurate, and the species is wrongly placed in his key among those...

Book  (1978)  Page(s) 171.  
 
...that they are all true species, and not convinced that true stock can be located without a journey to those parts of the world, principally China, where they are wild. However they are supposed to be as follows: R. cerasocarpa, something like R. moschata, with red hips, the name meaning cherry fruited.

Book  (1947)  Page(s) 116.  
 
Cerasocarpa (with horned carpels) (Species), Central China, has long canes bearing shining green foliage, and bears large clusters of densely packed, smallish, creamy-white flowers. Rolfe -...Climber. Without Scent. ...July.

Book  (1936)  Page(s) 139.  
 
Cerasocarpa hort. (?) in England ? ; whitish pink, shaded, semi-double, large clusters, large foliage, small cherry-form fruit, climbing habit. Sangerhausen

Article (magazine)  (1933)  Page(s) 242-243.  
 
ROSA CERASOCARPA Rolfe.
Rosa cersaocarpa, part., Rolfe, Kew Bull. 1915, p. 89.
Arbrisseau grimpant, élevé.
Aiguillons crochus ou courbés, à base très dilatée, assez courts, épars.
Feuilles un peu coriaces, 100 à 190 mm. de longueur; folioles au nombre de 5 (3 aux feuilles florales), à nervilles peu saillantes, brièvement pétiolulées, 2 à 2¼ fois aussi longues que larges, arrondies ou un peu atténuées à la base, aiguës ou acuminées au sommet, la terminale plus longue que les autres, ; dents simples, peu profondes, jusqu'à 30 de chaque côté; folioles glabres, les plus grandes 80 à 95 mm. de longueur; pétioles glabres, avec ou sans quelques petits aiguillons crochus; stipules adnées, étroites, à oreillettes divergentes, lancéolées, à bords entiers.
Inflorescence en panicule plurirameuse, jusqu'à 16 fleurs assez petites, la corolle mesurant 25 à 30 mm. de longueur; pédicelles à articulation basilaire ou non, 2 à 4 fois la longueur du fruit, 20 à 27 mm. de longueur, glabres, à glandes stipitées très serrées, glandes qui s'étendent sur l'urcéole; sépales entiers ou à appendices latéraux étroits, graduellement atténues en pointe, mesurant 7 à 8 mm. de longueur, pubescents et glanduleux sur le dos; corolle blanche. Disque plan, à orifice étroit. Styles agglutinés en colonne velue. Des bractées et bractéoles, pouvant persisterjusqu'à la maturité du fruit.
Fruit globuleux, lisse, 9 ou 10 mm. de longueur, rouge, privé des sépales.
La decription de Rolfe a porté sur deux espèces différentes, mais elle repose surtout sur un buisson provenant de la Chine sans localité, croissant en 1914 dans le jardin de Sir W. T. Thiselton Dyer, qui l'avait reçu de la Mertola près d'Antibes et dont des échantillons n'ont malheureusement pas été conservés pour l'herbier de Kew. Celui-ci ne renferme que des exemplaires sauvages que Rehder et Wilson ont rapportés au R. Rubus (n^o 7007), No Pahung, Houpé, leg. A. Henry) et au R. Gentiliana (n^o 2952, Ichang, leg. A. Henry).
Le second devont mon R. ichangensis; le premier sert de type à mon R. cerasocarpa, dont les détails sur la fleur sont empruntés à la description de Rolfe, car ce n^o 7007 n'est qu'un rameau fructifère. Comment il a pu être rapporté au R. Rubus est un mystère pour moi, car il n'y a de poils ni sur les feuilles ni dur les pédicelles.
Comme je viens de le dire, je n'ai pas vu la fleur, mais l'indication de 7 ou 8 mm. pour la longueur dec sépales me porte à conclure que cette Rose doit se ranger parmi celles à bouton court; s'il en est ainsi, c'est à côté du R. Sinowilsoni qu'il faut placer.

Magazine  (1933)  Page(s) 45.  
 
R. cerasocarpa is very attractive when grown as a pillar Rose, the strong ...

Magazine  (1922)  Page(s) 35.  
 
46789. Rosa gentiliana Lev. and Van. Rosaceae. Rose.
From England. Presented by Sir David Prain, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Received December 3, 1918.
"A plant grown from a cutting supplied by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer." (Prain.)
A rose which is abundant in the mountaineous regions of western Hupeh and eastern Szechwan, where it forms tangled masses 6 meters or more in height. The numerous large white flowers are very fragrant, and the anthers are golden yellow. The species is easily distinguished by its glabrous, pale-gray shoots and the 3 to 5 foliolate leaves, which are shining green above and very pallid beneath. (Adapted from Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 2, p. 312.)
Received as Rosa cerasocarpa Rolfe, which is referred to R. gentiliana in Plantae Wilsonianae.

Magazine  (1917)  Page(s) 68.  
 
Rosa cerasocarpa. See R. gentiliana.

Magazine  (Dec 1916)  Page(s) vol.142 Ser.4 No.12 Tab.8688.  Includes photo(s).
 
Rosa cerasocarpa
China.
Rosaceae. Tribe Roseae.
Rosa, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 625.
Rosa (§ Synstylae) cerasocarpa, Rolfe in Kew Bulletin, 1915, p. 89 ; a R. longicuspidi, Bert., foliolis paucioribus et majoribus, sepalis angustioribus, et fructibus minoribus differt.
Frutex scandena vel subscandens, alta. Rami glauci vel subglauci, aculeia validis recurvis basi late dilatatis sparse annati. Folia 12-18 cm. longa, 5-foliolata vel rarissime 3-foliolata, rhachis.breviter glandulosa et sparse aculeata ; foliola breviter petiolulata, ovata vel elliptico-ovata, acuminata, argute serrata, glabra vel subglabra, subcoriacea, 5-10 cm. longa, 2.5-5 cm. lata, subtus glaucescentia, venis prominentibus ; stipulae adnatae, angustissimae, apice liberae, divergentes et acuminatae, marginibus sparse glandulosis. Flores 2.5-3 cm. diametro, in cymas terminales corymbiformes 8-15 cm. diametro multifloras dispositi ; pedicelli 2-4 cm. longi, crebre glandulosi. Receptaculum anguste obovoideum, 4 mm. longum, villosum et glandulosum. Calycis lobi oblongo-lanceolati, acuminata vel caudato-acuminati, pubescentes et glandulosi, interdum pinnatisecti, 7-8 mm. longi, reflexi. Petala cuneato-obcordata, alba, circiter, 1.2 cm. longa. Filamenta glabra, 7-8 mm. longa. Carpella copiose villosa ; styli in columnam connati, 6 mm. longi. Fructus globosus, saturate ruber, circiter 1 cm. longus, calycis lobis et stylis deciduis.— R. A. Rolfe.

The Rose here figured is a member of the Synstylae, and is one of the group whereof the well-known Rosa moschata Herm. figured at t.741 of this work, is the type. The material for our plate was supplied by Sir W.T. Thiselton-Dyer, The Ferns, Witcombe, who informs us that his plant was obtained originally from China through the late Sir Thomas Hanbury, La Mortola. The flowering branch figured was received in June, the fruiting spray in November 1914. The plant has thriven well under the conditions suitable for R. moschata, and when in full blossom is singularly pleasing. Like other members of the group to which R. moschata belongs, the present species, described by Mr. Rolfe as R. cerasocarpa, from the plant here figured, is difficult to delimit. When the original account was prepared Rolfe identified as belonging to his new species a specimen in fruit collected by Mr. A. Henry at Ichang in Central China (Henry n. 2952) and with some hesitation referred to it a second specimen obtained by the same traveller in North Patung (Henry n. 7007). The latter, however, has a rather more ellipsoid fruit, and Rehder and Wilson have recently referred it to R. Rubus, Lev. and Vaniot, a species previously known only from the original specimen, collected at Kouy-tcheou by the Abbé Martin, which, according to its authors, has the styles free. At the same time Rehder and Wilson (Pl. Wils. vol. ii, p. 312) have treated R. cerasocarpa itself as a form of R. Gentiliana, Lev. and Vaniot. But the Rose now described differs from the original specimen of R. Gentiliana, figured by Miss Willmott in her monograph of the genus Rosa; in our plant the leaflets are longer, more acuminate, and of a firmer texture; the stipules are narrower and less fimbriate; the pedicels are more densely glandular.
Description.- Shrub, tall and scandent or subscandent; branches more or less glaucous, sparingly beset with stout, recurved, wide-based prickles. Leaves 5-7 in. long, 5-foliate or occasionally 3-foliate; rachis shortly glandular and sparingly prickly; leaflets shortly petiolate, ovate or elliptic-ovate, acuminate, sharply serrate, glabrous or nearly so, subcoriaceous, 2-4 in. long, 1-2 in. wide, glaucescent beneath, prominently veined; stipules adnate, very narrow, free divergent and acuminate above, their margins sparingly glandular. Flowers 1-1¼ in. wide, in terminal corymbiform many-flowered cymes 3-6 in. across; pedicels 3/4- 1 1/2 in. long, closely glandular. Receptacle narrow-obovoid, 1/6 in. long, villous and glandular. Calyx-lobes oblong-lanceolate, acuminate or caudate-acuminate, pubescent and glandular, at times pinnatisect, about 1/3 in. long, reflexed. Petals white, cuneate-obcordate, about 1/2 in. long. Filaments glabrous, about 1/3 in. long. Carpels very villous; styles united in a column, 1/4 in. long. Fruit globose, deep red, over 1/3 in. long; calyx-lobes and styles deciduous.

Fig. 1 vertical section of a flower, the petals removed ; 2 and 3, stamens ; 4, carpels; 5, a fruit; 6, an achene :—all enlarged.