Lemon Hearts

Lemon Hearts is a female unicorn pony with a maize coat, Columbia blue mane and tail with a Maya blue streak on her tail, jazzberry jam eyes, and a cutie mark of three hearts; two light blue and one june bud. Her name has not been used on the show, but she is named in merchandise. She shares her design with Twinkleshine, and shares her tail style with Daisy and Golden Harvest. She has speaking roles in Green Isn't Your Color and Putting Your Hoof Down.

Depiction in the series
Lemon Hearts is commonly featured as a background pony. During running sequences, her eye style changes to one resembling Rarity's and her eye color turns blue.

She makes her first appearance in Friendship is Magic, part 1 in Canterlot. She appears before Twilight Sparkle, alongside Twinkleshine and Minuette, while carrying a present on her back. She has no spoken lines, but she receives Twinkleshine's remark about Twilight when the studious unicorn turns down the offer to join them at Moondancer's get-together. Later in the episode, she appears at Pinkie Pie's party in Ponyville's library and is among the ponies who visually yell "Surprise!" to Twilight. Since then, Lemon Hearts has been a common sight in Ponyville.

She attends the Grand Galloping Gala in The Best Night Ever and makes it into the V.I.P. section. She takes photos of Wonderbolts Spitfire and Soarin' with fellow Gala attendees "North Star" and "Masquerade". In Putting Your Hoof Down, she offers two bits for the cherry Fluttershy wanted to buy for Angel's salad.

Re-use of color
A few background ponies who share Lemon Hearts' color scheme appear in the series. In many crowd scenes, a pony with the same design as "Lavenderhoof" but with Lemon Hearts' color scheme appears off to the side, looking ahead diagonally. In Winter Wrap Up, a pony with the same design as Golden Harvest and Daisy, but with the aforementioned color scheme, plows the snow with the plant team.

Another pony with a similar color scheme is "Lemon Tart", a unicorn pony with the same design as Lyra Heartstrings and Amethyst Star who usually appears at parties, wearing a pink saddle with a light pink skirt underneath. However, she is much more differentiated from Lemon Hearts due to her cyan eye color and different cutie mark, which is seen in The Best Night Ever.

Appearances
Times stated below are approximate and taken from videos available online.

Merchandise
A mini-figure toy was released as part of the first wave of mystery packs in November 2010 and will be released as part of the upcoming Toys "R" Us exclusive Friendship Celebration Collection. The toy uses the Rarity mold but features Lemon Hearts's color scheme and cutie mark. Her name comes from the card accompanying the toy. According to the European mystery pack toy package, Lemon Hearts "is loving and kind". The description on the U.S. mystery pack toy package adds, "She always takes time to show her friends how much she cares." The Friendship Celebration Collection toy package has a different description and reads, "LEMON HEARTS and PEPPERDANCE play together in a band!"

Gallery

 * Lemon Hearts image gallery

Quotes
"She's an embarrassment to all things fashion!"

- Green Isn't Your Color

"I'll give you two bits for that cherry."

- Putting Your Hoof Down