Plant tissue cutting and transplanting apparatus

A plant tissue cutting and transplanting apparatus (15) is provided with a supply system (6) for plant receptacles (2A) which are covered by lids (2C) after plants that have been propagated and grown in a culture medium (21), a supply system (7) for lidded empty receptacles (2B) that contain the culture medium (2), a lid opening and closing head (20) to open and close the lids of the receptacles that are supplied by these supply systems, a square cutter (17) to cut a predetermined number of plants in the receptacles (2A) that contain plants, and a transplanting head (19) that is provided with a transplanting device (18) to transplant these plant fragments that have been cut by the cutter from the square portions of the cutter (17) to the culture medium in the empty receptacles (2B). The transplanting device (19) is provided with a plural number of pushing rods (22) so as to correspond to the positions of the squares of the cutter (17), a plural number of lifting apparatus (29-32) that can lift together each set of a predetermined number of these pushing rods (22), and a lifting apparatus (16) that lifts the transplanting head (18).