I actually think that wal-mart does this intentionally. It's all part of their evil marketing conspiracy... they know that no one would ever buy their plants under normal circumstances, so they intentionally torture them to bring out our rescue instinct...
Anyway, it's a Mammillaria that divides dichotomously... but it doesn't look exactly like a parkinsonii (the middle spines aren't long enough, they're less than 1/8th of an inch) and it doesn't look exactly like a karwinsiana either... so I'm not sure exactly what I ended up with... I'm leaning toward parkinsonii... I've heard of a shorter spined variety, but I haven't seen it yet, so I'm gonna assume this is it until some kind person out there tells me otherwise...
If anybody has any ideas of the specific name for the plant, don't hesitate to let me know...
Hope everybody had a great 4th. I did absolutely nothing at all...
