Culture plate

In microbiology, a culture plate is a low flat-bottomed laboratory container for growing a layer of organisms such as bacteria, molds, and cells on a thin layer of nutrient medium. The most common types are the petri dish^[1][2] and multiwell plates.^[3]

Multiwell culture plates	Penicillium mold colonies in a Petri dish

See also

• Roux culture bottle
• Inoculation loop
• Test tube