The scientific classification of Century Plant and Orchid Cactus includes the entire classification chart that includes kingdom, family, clade, tribe etc. A kingdom is the second highest taxonomic rank. A taxonomic rank is the level that a living organisms are placed in hierarchical level of arrangement of life forms. All the living organisms are divided into kingdoms. Plant kingdom is a main classification of living organisms that include all plants. There are six kingdoms which are: Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Aschaea/Archaeabacteria and Bacteria Eubacteria. Century Plant and Orchid Cactus kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Century Plant and Orchid Cactus family is a major factor of Century Plant and Orchid Cactus Scientific Classification. Plant family helps you narrow the search of your plants. It also gives you idea about, how the plant looks, how the seed will be like etc. These two plant families can be different or same. Century Plant belongs to the family Agavaceae and Orchid Cactus belongs to the family Cactaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Century Plant and Orchid Cactus genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Century Plant and Orchid Cactus, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Agave and other plant's genus is Disocactus. Century Plant tribe is Not Available and Orchid Cactus tribe is Hylocereeae. Century Plant clade is Angiosperms and Monocots and order is Asparagales whereas Orchid Cactus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllales. Every plant have subfamilies. Century Plant subfamilies are, Agavoideae and Orchid Cactus subfamilies are Cactoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Century Plant and Orchid Cactus and other products also.