The scientific classification of Petunia and Ponytail 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. Petunia and Ponytail Palm kingdom and all other plants kingdom is Plantaea.
Plant family is the group of plants which have something in common. Petunia and Ponytail Palm family is a major factor of Petunia and Ponytail 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. Petunia belongs to the family Solanaceae and Ponytail Palm belongs to the family Liliaceae.
While comparing scientific classification, Petunia and Ponytail Palm genus and other classification are also important. Also, when you compare Petunia and Ponytail Palm, other factors should also be taken into considerations like order, subfamilies, tribe, clade etc. First plant's genus is Petunia and other plant's genus is Beaucarnea. Petunia tribe is Not Available and Ponytail Palm tribe is Not Available. Petunia clade is Angiosperms, Asterids and Eudicots and order is Solanales whereas Ponytail Palm clade is Angiosperms and order is Asparagales. Every plant have subfamilies. Petunia subfamilies are, Petunioideae and Ponytail Palm subfamilies are Nolinoideae. In this way you can compare scientific classification of Petunia and Ponytail Palm and other products also.