Abstract: ‘Yueping’is a new late ripening apple hybrid selected from‘Hanfu’בYueshuai’. Its fruit shape is conical，with the average fruit weight 295 g，the largest 545 g. The fruit skin is glossy，which has a yellowish green ground color covered with red blush. Its flesh is yellowish white，crisp，juicy，sour-sweet，palatable，aromatic and normal taste，with a firmness of 11.2 kg · cm-2，soluble solids content of 15.3%，titratable acid content of 0.22%，vitamin C content of 0.052 mg · g-1. Its S-genotype is S1S2. The basic fruit development and vegetative growth is 165 d and 220 d，respectively. The main characteristics are the apple ring rot disease resistance，cold resistance，long-storage，early-bearing and high yield.

Key words: apple, cultivar