The scientific classification of Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus 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 Night Blooming Cereus kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus family is a major factor of Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus 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 Night Blooming Cereus belongs to the family Cactaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus, 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 Peniocereus. Christmas Cactus tribe is Not Available and Night Blooming Cereus tribe is Pachycereeae. Christmas Cactus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllales whereas Night Blooming Cereus clade is Angiosperms, Core eudicots and Eudicots and order is Caryophyllales. Every plant have subfamilies. Christmas Cactus subfamilies are, Cactoideae and Night Blooming Cereus subfamilies are Cactoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Christmas Cactus and Night Blooming Cereus and other products also.