In order to develop a simple and fast as well as adequate epidermal preparation technique,seven different preparation methods were adopted to prepare fruit epidermal specimens of Malus xiaojinensis for light microscopic observation of its morphological features.A comparison between these methods indicated that four of them,namely acid eduction method,nail polish blotting method,scraping method,and boiling peeling scraping method,could yield clear epidermal structure under microscope.And the effect of production with boiling peeling scraping method was significantly better than that of other methods.Thus the boiling peeling scraping method is considered as the most applicable one to prepare specimens for Malus fruit epidermis.Besides,it has such advantages as easy sampling,simple procedure and high efficiency.