[Grammar] X among Y gilded by the rays

[suprunp]

Then she loosened the straps and went to the porthole, hoping to see Florentino Ariza in the tumult of the port, but all she saw were the customs sheds among the palm trees gilded by the first rays of the sun and the rotting boards of the dock in Riohacha, where the schooner had set sail the night before.
(Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez)

Can 'gilded' modify 'customs sheds' or is it just impossible and why?

Thanks.

 

[Rover_KE]

It's possible.

There's ambiguity whether it modifies sheds or palm trees.

Palm trees is more likely in my opinion; they'd probably be taller than the sheds.

Rover