I assume by from a picnic table you mean it is a frame or part of a frame. If it looks like a cast part, then if it is magnetic, it is not aluminum. If it isn't magnetic, it could be aluminum or magnesium. Aluminum is 2.7gm/cm^3 and magnesium is 1.74 gm/cm^3, so if you can weight it and measure the volume (Archimedes), you can figure out which one it is.
you can also check out searching for "test aluminum versus magnesium"