Half Man Half Tree

Dede Kosawa, 32 year old man is one of the world’s most extraordinary people. He lives in a remote village in Indonesia with his two children.This guy is a former fisherman that has an incredible skin condition. He has root like structures growing out of his body and branches that can grow up to 5cm a year and which protrude from his hands and feet, and welts covering his whole body.


He is known locally as ‘Tree Man’ and his condition has baffled local doctors for 20 years. In an attempt to earn a living to support his family, he is part of a circus troupe, displaying his Tree Man limbs along with others afflicted with skin deformities in ‘freak’ shows.