The bug
Usually when using bone meal on a twisting vine, it will continue to grow until its hits a block, and then bone meal cannot be used on it anymore, but when the twisting vine is grown to build height, bone meal can still be used on it, but it will not grow.
This affects:
Y = >319
Twisting Vines
Saplings
Mushrooms/Fungi
Bamboo
Big Dripleaf
Y = <-64
Weeping Vines
Pale Hanging Moss
Also applies to saplings, red or brown mushrooms, and bamboo, and to weeping vines when they grow down to y=0.