Cactus can generate excessively tall, though it can only grow 3 blocks high

The bug

Cactus can generate excessively tall, though it can only grow three blocks high. Fun and harmless generation quirk. Also very old and has been in the game since at least 1.4.7.

To reproduce

• Enter any of the following seed and coordinates.

Seed: -1539315707261341838
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s 186.44 73.12 135.50 90.30 34.20

Seed: 840511738247485999
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -62.64 72.53 77.23 219.00 12.90

Seed: 7394312107885230768
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -3157.50 75.64 -3922.50 260.24 31.35

Expected result

Cactus would only generate up to 3 blocks high.