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However, I’m not confident whether this is appropriate. My first idea was to append “wood” ending to a name of a particular tree in order to obtain a desired word such as "birchwood" for a birch forest. I’m not even sure whether the last two of my examples do not represent any kind of idiosyncratic vocabulary. I’m aware only of a few examples, namely a pinery (a grove/woodland with pines) and some more esoteric ones such as "oakery" (oak woodland) and "osier-bed" (grove with osiers/small willows). I’m trying to find out whether there exists something similar in English. This style is mostly prevalent in literature rather than colloquial language for that matter. Instead of saying this word combination you can merely say aspen with a special suffix ("осинник"). For example, let’s say there is an aspen forest. To give you a rough idea, in Russian there is a way to name a woodland type, consisting mostly of one preponderant and homogeneous tree species using a single word without explicitly saying an "XYZ" forest.

I do not really like a word combination “birch woodland” or a “birch forest” and I'd like to express this by means of one word. While working on a short story I stumbled over a simple sentence when I was trying to depict in a succinct, and yet expressive manner, a fact that the main character was at the edge of a birch woodland.