Terraforming a tide-locked planet

Over several hundred years, a tide-locked, but otherwise Earth-like, planet orbiting a red dwarf is terraformed. The terminator is a very habitable zone, in terms of temperature, atmosphere, etc. Chemical composition is (now) almost identical with Earth's.

Given the star always appearing near the horizon, would plants grow diagonally? They'd almost all orient toward the sunny side of the planet, no? So walking through a forest would look very different than here, even if everything else was the same?

Though of course it wouldn't be the same. What Earth flora might survive there, in the absence of the day/night cycle? I'm going to handwave 'modified' plants, so this doesn't need to be utterly feasible, but what would you expect to do least-poorly in such an environment?

posted over 5 years ago

DanePilot‭

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