The first franchise store opened in July 2010 and the shop sold cakes worth 130,000 yuan (around $21,000) the first day itself.
In 2012, Jiahua's total sale of rose pastries reached 15 million yuan.
The shelf life of flower cake varies from seven days to 45 days depending on the ingredients, and there are more than a dozen varieties of pastries on sale now.
Currently, Yunnan Jiahua Food has 200 hectares of land for growing edible roses. The plantations produce 1,200 tonnes of roses every year.
Wang Guiming, a 45-year-old farmer, has a rose plantation in Yunzhaotun village. He has been cultivating roses for about a decade.
