In the Profile: Prof Ben Eric Van Wyk

Gugs Mhlungu speaks to Prof Ben Eric Van Wyk, Plant taxonomist and Research Professor of Indigenous Plant Use at the University of Johannesburg, about his passion for bowling, growing up in a plant-loving family, and how that early interest led him from plant taxonomy to researching medicinal plants.

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