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Found a coconut floating in the sea in Maldives. This is my first time in the tropics, but let's assume that it had dropped the same day from the coconut trees above the beach.

Is it a viable aspiration to get it home in Hellas? Will the coconut be preserved, or it will rotten making a mess? We are going to stay 10 days.

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    Do you mean Greece (The Hellenic Republic) by Hellas? If so, it will be covered by the EU biosecurity laws
    – CSM
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    That coconut is in pretty bad shape, I doubt it's still edible. It also looks like it still contains the meat inside, which will rot if it hasn't already.
    – lambshaanxy
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    @gsamaras Is your goal to eat it or use it as home decor or what? I'm sure your hotel can find a fresh one for you, it's the Maldives so they literally grow on trees :)
    – lambshaanxy
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    @RussellMcMahon no idea, but I feel like they are designed to float too and travel to neighboring islands, where they might grow, I guess..
    – gsamaras
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    Since you're returning to Greece, it's possible that you are in fact a European swallow (not an African swallow), so it's possible that you could fly with this coconut. However, as other people have pointed out, you might not want to eat the sea coconut with an ambiguous storage history.
    – David Robie
    Commented 13 hours ago

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While you typically need a phytosanitary certificate to bring plant products into Europe, coconuts are excempt from this. (Search for "coconut" on this page.)

An unopened coconut should keep for a month or a bit longer.

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