The trunk of the palm tree is a stick from the backyard in Okinawa. It attaches to a thumb tack glued into the hole of the base of the diorama, allowing for easy removal for shipping but remaining sturdy enough for display. The top of the trunk is rapped with twine to simulate the dead palm frond bases you find on all palm trees in Okinawa.
The kit itself comes from the Japanese company Kamizukuri, who makes laser cut paper vegetation and buildings diorama kits for Japan's large plastic model enthusiast population. Below is the front and back cover of the kit I used for this project, their jungle kit, as the 1/35 scale of the kit better suited the Warlord 28mm Bolt Action figures than the palm tree kit you will see further down. The fern kit came with four different types of fern leaves, though I primarily used the ones on the right. I used one kit for each gift.
Below is a palm tree kit's contents. The palm tree kit comes with two sheets of laser cut paper leaves, one with 10 and one with 7 leaves (and 2 lizards). They also include a white and black piece of paper (I have not figured out what those are used for, and 8 wire stems used to attach the leaves to the trunk of your plant/tree. The leaves are decently sturdy, even when painted (all kits come pre-colored as dead leaves), and hold their shape well once you bend them the way you want. The leaves are attached to the sheets by a number of tabs that are easy to cut with a pen knife and with little worry of damaging the leaf.
Also included is a direction sheet in Japanese, though it is easy enough to deduce from the pictures, at least the important parts.
Over-all the kits are nicely done, but they only come with the leaves and not the trunks. They are a bit pricey as well: the jungle kits came in at 1234 yen each (about $11.21), and the palm tree kit was 1400 yen (about $12.72). They make good kits for special diorama projects or displays for your miniatures when not using them but I would not use them for regularly used war-gaming terrain.
