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The potential benefits of clonally propagated commercial planting stock has been well reviewed (Ammirato et al, 1984). In general, woody taxa are difficult to regenerate under in vitro conditions but recently some success has been achieved in a few leguminous and non - leguminous trees (Tomar and Gupta, 1988a; Vibha Dhawan and Bhojwani, 1985). Commercial cloning in vivo and in vitro of adult or mature woody plants is adversely affected by characteristics accompanying maturation such as, reduced growth rate and improper or total lack of rooting (Pierik, 1990). We report attempts undertaken at our laboratory to establish in vitro propagation from nodal cuttings in Dendrocalamus strictus, Oxytenanthera stoksii, Coffea arabica, and via somatic embryogenesis in Mimosa golois.