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Plants live in fixed locations and survive adversity by integrating growth responses to diverse environmental signals.Tamarisk,a tree who thrives in arid and semi-arid regions,has adapted to blustery conditions by evolving extremely effective and robust anti-erosion surface patterns.However,the details of these unique properties and their chemical composition and structural basis are still unexplored.Here we researched the structure,chemical composition,mechanical properties and erosive wear of the different zones of the tamarisk interior were how to adapt actively to the environment of erosion.Histological observations indicated that the development of culm was dominated by cell division.The surface wind-sand erosion will further promoted the cell division.The windward rings were more extensive than that of leeside.The windward had excellent mechanical properties because the inorganic salts content of the windward was higher than that of the leeside.Anti-erosion property gradually improved accompanied by the mechanical properties increase.We envision that fundamental mechanism for the growth processes in biological systems will provide new ideas in bioinspired design of intelligent self-adaptive and self-repair materials.