Blade Runner microscope image is a cannabis plant close‑up

A scanning electron microscope was indeed used to create this image of a real marijuana bud. ... The original image was in black and white. The colors in this image are an artistic addition.

Many hylotelephiums and sedums are commonly called stonecrop in reference to the frequent sighting of the genus in the wild growing on rocks or stony ledges. ‘Blade Runner’ is noted for its toothed foliage that reportedly resembles the serrated blade of a knife, hence the common name.

Back at Deckard's apartment, two shafts of light (scanning searchlights in the city monitor private life) shine in the window. As he hangs drunkenly over his piano, and doodles a few notes on the piano keys [the same tune that Rachael later plays], he experiences a dream sequence - a golden-hued ...

The image is 6 mm wide. The different layers of the stem have been given different colors. The layer that is several cells below the skin is the section of thick-walled fiber cells. This highlights one potential uses of cannabis: an excellent source of fibers for paper, rope, and fabric. The legalizing of cannabis in several states in the United States, opens research in this very profitable aspect of the plant.

The "snake scale," when seen on the Cambodian woman's microscope, is actually an extreme close-up of a marijuana bud.

For reasons known only to Ridley ... the electron microscope to identify the manufacturer, the image used to represent the scale is, in fact, a bud of marijuana....

When the Cambodian woman puts the snake scale into the electron microscope, she doesn't take it out of the plastic bag. We should be looking at a picture of a plastic bag. The serial number that she gives Deckard is not identical to the one in the image.

Additionally, she never removes the scale from the plastic bag in which it resides when Deckard gives it to her. There is no conceivable way that any microscope could produce such a clear image through plastic.

Tyrell to interview him, and at Tyrell’s request tests Rachel on a Voight-Kampff machine, which is designed to help blade runners tell replicants from people. Deckard and Rachel learn that she is a replicant. Then with Gaff, he follows clues to the apartment of one exposed replicant, Leon, where he finds a synthetic snake scale in the bathtub and a set of photographs in a drawer.