Thinking Butia capitata (Pindo palm).

Definately butia capitata also called a pindo palm and commonly called a jelly palm in the southeast becasue of the tasty jelly that the fruit can make. Also in milder more humid climates boston ferns, or really any fern that grows on trees will attach itself to the leaf bases of the trunk.

I wonder if it would be podssible to duplicate that look on a smaller scale with a potted pindo?

Thanks so much for your ID folks. My friends thought I was very clever! But I did tell them the truth.

Cheers!