The scientific classification of Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm 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. Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm family is a major factor of Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm 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. Christmas Cactus belongs to the family Cactaceae and Madagascar palm belongs to the family Apocynaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Schlumbergera and other plant's genus is pachypodium. Christmas Cactus tribe is Not Available and Madagascar palm tribe is Malouetieae. Christmas Cactus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllales whereas Madagascar palm clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Gentianales. Every plant have subfamilies. Christmas Cactus subfamilies are, Cactoideae and Madagascar palm subfamilies are Apocynoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Christmas Cactus and Madagascar palm and other products also.