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I don't like way you've shown the cartilage. It seems confusing and misleading. For example, to read this diagram literally, since the cartilage can be seen inside the cutaway section of bone, it incorrectly indicates that the cartilage in fact goes through the bone structure, rather than just being found around the bone end.
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Diagram of a typical long bone showing both compact (cortical) and cancellous (spongy) bone. Osteons on cross-section of a bone. In osteology, the osteon or haversian system (/ h ə ˈ v ɜːr. ʒ ən /; named for Clopton Havers) is the fundamental functional unit of much compact bone.
Original analog graphics: Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body from the classic 1918 publication available online at Bartleby.com. Digital bitmap graphics: Transverse Section Of Bone.png; Recreated in vector format: Own work; Author: Source digital bitmap graphics: BDB; Recreated in vector format: Nyq; Other versions
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It is composed of 270 bones at the time of birth, [2] but later decreases to 206: 80 bones in the axial skeleton and 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton. 172 of 206 bones are part of a pair and the remaining 34 are unpaired. [3] Many small accessory bones, such as sesamoid bones, are not included in this.