Bananas in pyjamas may be OK, but in undies they are not - as a woman discovered at Sydney Airport.
Customs officers stopped the 56-year-old from the Czech Republic when she arrived from Samoa on Wednesday.
Suspecting she was concealing something on her body, a female officer frisked her and found she was concealing three banana plants in her underpants.
Quarantine officers seized the plants, which Customs say are a threat to Australia's banana industry because they can carry black sigatoka disease, fusarium wilt, or moko disease.
The woman was likely to be issued a court attendance notice when investigations were completed, a Customs spokesman said today.
Penalties for breaching quarantine laws can result in fines of more than $66,000 ($NZ74,900) or 10 years' jail.
