English: Carrion flowers.
Including:
Philesiaceae and
Rhipogonaceae.
Botany: vines; they have a place but have to fight for it, or get overwhelmed in it.
Culture: Greek myth of Krokus and the nymph Smilax, the unfulfilled and tragic love of a mortal man who is turned into a flower and a woodland nymph who is transformed into a brambly vine.
Rhipogonaceae: Rhipogonum.
Smilacaceae: Heterosmilax, Smilax.
Petremanniaceae: Petermannia, a vine.