Dinosaur-era plants flourish in Tasmania’s internationally recognised Jurassic garden

You can’t hang out with dinosaurs, but at a unique garden in Tasmania you can wander among the plant species they ate, flew over and trampled underfoot during the Jurassic era.

“They’re the plant equivalent of dinosaurs, and they are very far from being extinct,” Dr Tonia Cochran, managing director of the Inala Jurassic Garden told ABC Radio Hobart.

Dr Cochran planted the garden on Bruny Island near Hobart in 2013 with species that have existed for more than 150…