When 1.20 announced cherry trees, my birch trees of a similar color became kind of unneeded and I struggled what to do to replace them to keep a beauty to my world that the pink cherry trees once did. I'm not a fan of their leaves normally so I set out to try and create something new and I think it ended up looking better.

Usually optifine would only be recommended due to the glowing flowers but with vanilla's colormap taking precedent over my pack, I've had to resort to optifine to strip birches colormap entirely. If there's any way AROUND doing it this way, I'd love to hear it. I'd update this in a heartbeat.

(Glowing leaves are in this pack by default. If you'd rather not have this remove 'birch_flowers_1_e, birch_flowers_2_1_e, birch_flowers_2_2_e and birch_flowers_3_e' from the textures/block folder)

Thanks to Manuel XXVI for letting me use his pack as the base so I could make it match my personal pack.
Highly recommend you check them out:
https://www.planetminecraft.com/member/manuel_xxvi/

SHADERS USED:
www.curseforge.com/minecraft/customization/astralex-shader-bsl-edit