The most suitable tissue of Pleione formosana Hayata for tissue culture was the shoot tip from flower bud of large and matured corm, which was harvested in winter and then stored at 5℃ for one to two months. Somatic protocorm formation and proliferation from shoot tip were promted by 1/3 MS basal salts. However, adventitious roots induced easily and few somatic protocorms were formed from shoot tip cultured on Knudson's C medium. After cold storage, the shoot tips had little response to plant growth regulators for somatic protocorm proliferation. The coconut milk did not make a significantly positive effect. The proliferationof shoot tip seemed to perform better in solid media than in liguid ones. The growth of plantlets and bulbing through tissue culture were faster than seedlings germinated from seeds.