Greens candidate picked for by-election after MP quits

Angelica Di Camillo is the Greens candidate for the Melbourne seat of Prahran. (Supplied by Victorian Greens/AAP PHOTOS)

A young environmental engineer has been chosen as the Greens candidate for a hotly-contested Melbourne seat after the party's sitting MP resigned in controversy.

The party announced Angelica Di Camillo, who previously ran for the Greens in the now-abolished federal seat of Higgins, as their candidate for the state seat of Prahran.