Strangling vine
A climbing vine that kills its host tree — growth that depends on something and ends by taking it down.
A strangling vine in a dream is the dream's image of growth that depends on something and ends by taking it down. The vine cannot grow without the tree; the tree dies under the vine. The dream brings the vine when something in your life — a dependent relationship, a parasitic project, a habit that began as borrowed support — is now overgrown enough to be killing the structure that allowed it. A vine pruned back in time is the dream telling you the relationship can still be salvaged. A vine left to finish, with the tree dead and the vine flourishing on the carcass, is the dream noting that the outcome of the original arrangement has been completed.