The choice of planting materials assumes critical commercial importance in the case of perennial crops like natural rubber vis-a-vis annual crops for well known reasons. This paper is conceived to capture information on the composition and distribution of clones/seedling trees used in the large rubber estates in India so as to evaluate the response to Rubber Boards planting material recommendations of 1991. The results indicated a progressive deviation from the historical pattern by switching over to the new promising clones since the 1980s as RRII 105 remained as the single major clone in the planted area in the 1980s (43.78;) and the 1990s (48.19;). Based on the emerging trends it is presumed that RRII 105 will remain the promising clone till the introduction of new clones with higher productivity and better secondary attributed. The trends observed since the 1990s were found to be in tune with the official recommendations on multi-clonal planting in spite of notable regional differenced. The age-wise composition of planting materials underlined the lower rate of replanting in the estate sector in recent years with the higher share of area under the age group of greater than 25 years (39;) and lowest share for age group less than seven years in the total planted area. But the commercial sustenance of area under the older age group indicated the need for detailed studies on the agro-management policies followed in the estate sector, including the tapping systems and yield profile.