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[Rafal]

You made me wonder a bit, Jorge.

I haven't seen any direct commentary on it but I would say that in European culture oak is a symbol of masculine force and ivy of feminine force.

Oak is a symbol of strenth and was connected to many male gods.
Ivy is rather weak but also adaptive and relational, not solitary.

In Latin it is quercus (masculine) and hedera (feminine).

It is not univeral. English doesn't have masculine and feminine nouns at all and in my native Polish both nouns are masculine - "dąb" and "bluszcz".

But in modern Polish we have an idiom "kobieta-bluszcz" - "ivy woman". It is quite negative. It describes a woman that is totally dependent on her man but actually likes it. She has no own money, decisions, opinions or interests and just sticks to her partner and follows him everywhere but it is comfortable to her. And there is just "ivy woman" idiom, no "ivy man".

And there is also Poison Ivy in Batman universe 


So yes, the sexual symbolism in this case makes sense to me.