/place works inconsistently when placing trees

/place feature minecraft:birch_bees_0002 works anywhere

/place feature minecraft:birch_tall requires soil.

 

Steps to reproduce:

1. Fly somewhere in creative mode
2. Run /place feature minecraft:birch_bees_0002
3. Note that it works
4. Fly somewhere else
5. Run /place feature minecraft:birch_tall
6. Note that it fails unless you are above soil