Abstract: A receptacle for the storage and transportation of cut flowers. The receptacle has a substantially rectangular horizontal cross section, is manufactured of synthetic material, is provided with handgrips, and is double-walled in such a way as to be composed of an external container which is in the form of a truncated right pyramid facing upwards, and of an internal container which is provided with a substantially horizontal bottom and has the form of a truncated right pyramid facing downwards, the wall of the external container and that of the internal container being connected along the upper edge of the receptacle in such a way that the vertical section through both walls has substantially the form of an inverted "V", each leg of the "V" being inclined at an angle of at least 2.degree. to the vertical; the various parts of the receptacle are mutually dimensioned in such a way that a number of receptacles can be compactly stacked to form a nest.