1864 C. Darwin Let. 27 Jan. in (2001) XII. 32 During the winter the persistent leaf-stalks of Traveller's joy look like tendrils. Such plants may be called leaf climbers.
1917 D. W. Thompson xiii. 626 The coiling petiole of the leaf-climber tends to run transversely to the axis of its support.
2001 L. Langley i. 84 There had been palms here then, of one kind and another, and leaf climbers with long, thin stems.