Abstract: ‘Jinxiu Hong’is a new middle-late ripening apple cultivar，selected from mutation breeding of‘Huaguan’. Its fruit shape is nearly conical，with a greenish yellow skin，covered with full red blush. The average fruit weight is 205 g. The flesh is light yellow in color，fine，crisp and juicy，sour-sweet palatable，with a firmness of 18.06 kg · cm-2，13.3% soluble solids content，11.67% total sugar，0.29% titratable acid content，0.0514 mg · g-1 vitamin C content. It has very good quality and excellent storage ability. The trees are precocious and very productive. It matures 15 days earlier than ‘Huaguan’in the middle of September.

Key words: apple, cultivar