The vegetative clonal propagation of elite/superior cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) clones has long been recognized.as a potential mean to increase cacao production and genetic improvement. In this study, the authors report results of somatic embryogenesis and plant regeration from floral tissues of 9 elite cacao clones in Vietnam. Staminodes and petal base explants of studied cacao flower buds were placed on primary callus growth (PCO) medium containing with 1 mg/l 2.4-0 and 0.2 mg/l TDZ. Cali were subcultured onto fresh secondary callus growth (SCO) medium supplemented with 50 ml/l coconut water, 1 mg/l kinetin about 14 days before transfering to somatic embryo development medium (EO) supplemented with 1 g/l glucose and 30 g/l sucrose. Using this procedure, somatic embryos trom staminodes of6 clones including TD1, TD3, TD5, TD7, TD8, and TD9 were recovered. The trequency of embryogenesis ranged trom 4.73 (TD9) to 25.64 percent (TD8). TD8 was the only clone showed the availability of somatic embryogenesis from petal base explants. The regenerated embryos are grown to maturity with normal morphology.