Lays Laraya, who is known as “Skywardsfreak” online, said she was gifted the rose at the Qatar Airways lounge in Doha before flying to Australia and decided to take it with her, thinking nothing of it.

That was until she was approached by two plainclothes officials at Perth Airport.

She was pulled aside and had her bag searched before another worker pointed out she failed to declare she was bringing plants into Australia on her incoming passenger card.

“She puts the landing card in front of me and asks, ‘Is this landing card yours?’” Ms Laraya recalled to Insider after first posting about the incident on her Instagram.

“I said yes. ‘Do you recognise the signature on the landing card?’ I said yes, I recognise the signature. ‘Did you fill this landing truthfully?’ I said 100 per cent, everything is true here — and mind you, I had the rose right in front of me and I said this true because I still didn’t think that I was gonna get in trouble for the rose.

“And then she picked the rose and said, ‘How about this rose? Is this yours?’ I said, Yes, it’s mine. And then she’s like, ‘Can you read the card again and see whether the rose will fit in any of the questions that you said no to?’ So then I saw the one about plants. So I told her, ‘Yes, I understand where you’re coming from and the rose may fit into this category of plants.’”

Ms Laraya said she was then fined $1878 for knowingly providing false or misleading information.

She told the outlet she had been “visibly” carrying around the rose and not trying to hide it, and that she would have thrown it away had she known she was doing something wrong.

She said was actually given back the rose after officials inspected it and cut off the stem.

Now, she is looking to appeal the infringement notice.

A spokesperson for the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry told Insider if a traveller “fails to declare goods of a kind known to pose a high level of biosecurity risk” and provides false information, the infringement notice increases from a couple of hundred dollars to the $1878 fine.

“All travellers coming to Australia must be aware of Australia’s strict biosecurity requirements and the penalties for not complying with those requirements,” the department spokesperson said.

They added it’s common to return items to travellers “once all of the biosecurity requirements have been met”.

news.com.au contacted the department for comment.